UID:
almahu_9949863580902882
Umfang:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520380547
Inhalt:
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization, through the "Dark Age," and up to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. This period saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks that would eventually expand to nearly all shores of the Middle Sea. Alex R. Knodell argues that in order to understand how ancient Greece changed over time, one must analyze how Greek societies constituted and reconstituted themselves across multiple scales, from the local to the regional to the Mediterranean. Knodell employs innovative network and spatial analyses to understand the regional diversity and connectivity that drove the growth of early Greek polities. As a groundbreaking study of landscape, interaction, and sociopolitical change, Societies in Transition in Early Greece systematically bridges the divide between the Mycenaean period and the Archaic Greek world to shed new light on an often-overlooked period of world history.
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Argument -- Contexts: Early Greece between Prehistory and History -- Summary: A Guide to What Follows -- Chapter 1. Landscape, Interaction, Complexity -- An Archaeology of Landscape: Communities in Context -- An Archaeology of Interaction: Networks and Technologies -- An Archaeology of Complexity: Societies in Transition -- Chapter 2. Articulating Landscapes in Central Greece -- The Baseline Evidence: Sites, Communities, and Regional Datasets -- The Archaeological Landscapes of Central Greece -- Network Models in Geographical Space -- Territorial Models in Dynamic Landscapes -- Conclusions: Connecting the Dots -- Chapter 3. Confronting Hegemony in Mycenaean Central Greece -- Prelude: Emergent Complexity in Central Greece -- The Political Landscapes of Mycenaean Central Greece -- Producing Palatial Culture: Technology and Polity -- The Bigger Picture at the End of the Bronze Age -- Conclusions: Polity and Variety in the Mycenaean World -- Chapter 4. Reconstituting Polity in the Postpalatial Bronze Age -- Perspectives on Collapse -- Reconstituting Societies in the Postpalatial Landscape -- Crafting in New Communities, Reconfiguring Production -- An Age of Mobility -- Conclusions: Central Greece on Center Stage -- Chapter 5. Transforming Village Societies in the Prehistoric Iron Age -- Hierarchy and Heterarchy in the Early Iron Age Landscape -- Technology Transfer and Production Networks -- Mobility, Migration, and Mediterranean (Pre)history -- Conclusions: Pattern and Variation, Development versus Decline -- Chapter 6 . Expanding Horizons in the Protohistoric Iron Age -- Crowding the Landscape: Settlement Intensification and Regional Dynamics -- A Media Revolution: Words and Images on Things.
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The Mediterranean Corrupted -- Coda: From Villages to Poleis -- Conclusions: Mobility, Media, and the Political Landscape -- Conclusions -- Greece in Transition -- Comparative Insights from Early Greece -- Conclusions: Why Early Greece Matters -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Knodell, Alex R. Societies in Transition in Early Greece Berkeley : University of California Press,c2021 ISBN 9780520380530
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
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