Of Odysseys and Oddities : Scales and Modes of Interaction Between Prehistoric Aegean Societies and their Neighbours.

"Of Odysseys and Oddities is about scales and modes of interaction in prehistory, specifically between societies on both sides of the Aegean and with their nearest neighbours overland to the north and east. The 17 contributions reflect on tensions at the core of how we consider interaction in a...

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Main Author: Molloy, Barry
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2016
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Thinking of Scales and Modes of Interaction in Prehistory; 2. An Elite-Infested Sea: Interaction and Change in Mediterranean Paradigms; 3. Scales and Modes of Interaction in and beyond the Earlier Neolithic of Greece: Building Barriers and Making Connections; 4. Impressed Pottery as a Proxy for Connectivity in the Neolithic Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean; 5. A Question of Scale? Connecting Communities through Obsidian Exchange in the Neolithic Aegean, Anatolia and Balkans.
  • 6. Salting the Roads: Connectivity in the Neolithic Balkans7. Aspects of Connectivity on the Centre of the Anatolian Aegean Coast in 7th Millennium BC; 8. Kanlıgeçit
  • Selimpaşa
  • Mikhalich and the Question of Anatolian Colonies in Early Bronze Age Southeast Europe; 9. The Built Environment and Cultural Connectivity in the Aegean Early Bronze Age; 10. Emerging Economic Complexity in the Aegean and Western Anatolia during Earlier Third Millennium BC.
  • 11. Trade and Weighing Systems in the Southern Aegean from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age: How Changing Circuits Influenced Changing 'Glocal' Measures12. 'Brave New Worlds': Islands, Place-making and Connectivity in the Bronze Age Mediterranean; 13. Nought may Endure but Mutability: Eclectic Encounters and Material Change in the 13th to 11th Centuries BC Aegean; 14. Distributed Practice and Cultural Identities in the 'Mycenaean' Period; 15. Anatolian-Aegean interactions in the Early Iron Age: Migration, Mobility, and the Movement of People.