Format:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107002982
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9781107057555
Content:
In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- One The Problem of Mycenaean Coastal Worlds -- An Archaeological and Historical Problem -- Defining Mycenaean Coastal Worlds -- Organization of the Book -- Two Mycenaeans and the Sea -- A Brief Historical Sketch of the Mycenaean Period -- Emergence of Mycenaean Civilization -- The Palatial Period -- Decline and Collapse -- Mycenaean Long-Distance Maritime Activity -- The Geography and Chronology of Mycenaean Maritime Activity -- The Frequency and Volume of Interregional Trade -- Direct and Indirect Contact -- Mechanisms of Trade -- Sources of Evidence and Source Criticism -- Archaeological Evidence -- Textual Evidence -- Iconographic Evidence -- The Flotilla Fresco -- Pottery and Other Media -- Shipwrecks -- Environmental Evidence -- Historical and Ethnographic Evidence -- A Note about Theory -- Three Ships and Boats of the Aegean Bronze Age -- General Characteristics of Mediterranean Bronze Age Ships and Boats -- Types of Mycenaean Seacraft -- Development of the Mycenaean Galley -- Social and Historical Impact of the Galley -- Small Boats -- Egyptian Boats -- Iconographic Images of Small Boats -- Boat Models -- Ethnographic Analogies -- Performance -- Conclusions: Mycenaean Ships and Boats -- Four The Maritime Environment of the Aegean Sea -- Environmental Conditions for Navigation -- Global-Scale Processes -- Basin-Scale Atmospheric Processes -- Basin-Scale Surface Water Circulation and Currents -- Waves -- Aegean Variability -- Atmospheric Conditions in the Aegean Sub-Basin -- Seasonality at Kapsali Bay, Kythera -- Implications of the Environment for Aegean Navigation -- Sailing Routes in the Aegean -- Bronze Age Navigation in Practice: Navigational Aids -- Landmarks -- Seamarks -- Skymarks and Celestial Bodies -- Phenomenology of the Voyage
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Korphos and the Saronic World through Time -- Oral History and Kalamianos -- Discussion -- Potential Coastscapes and Small Worlds: Miletos and Dimini -- Miletos and the Latmian Gulf -- Dimini and the Bay of Volos -- Conclusion -- Eight Conclusions and Prospects -- A Conceptual Reorientation -- A Conceptual and Methodological Toolkit -- Maritime Coastal Communities -- Building Networks -- A Universe of Coastscapes and Small Worlds -- Notes -- References -- Index
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Types of Maritime Communities in the Bronze Age Aegean -- Transmission of Maritime Knowledge and the Habitus of Maritime Life -- Mycenaean Maritime Communities -- Linear B Evidence -- Iconography -- Homeric Epics -- Conclusions -- Five Coasts and Harbors of the Bronze Age Aegean -- Conditions of Discovery -- Geomorphology of Coastal Zones -- Long-Term Coastal Evolution -- Sediment Supply to Coastal Zones -- Coastal Landforms -- Coastal Cliffs and Shore Platforms -- Beaches -- Estuaries and Tidal Landforms -- Barrier Islands and Lagoons -- Deltas -- Coastal Sand Dunes -- The Anthropogenic Contribution -- Natural versus Artificial Harbors in the Mycenaean World -- Geoarchaeological Methods for Reconstructing Coastal Landscapes -- Field Techniques -- Laboratory Techniques -- Classification of Bronze Age Harbors -- A Systematic Approach to Detecting Bronze Age Harbors -- Liman Tepe, Aegean Turkey: A Brief Example -- Conclusion -- Six Concepts for Mycenaean Coastal Worlds -- The Unique Status of the Coastline? -- A Framework for Maritime Cultural Landscapes -- Coastscapes -- Maritime Small Worlds -- Regional/Intracultural Maritime Interaction Sphere -- Interregional/Intercultural Maritime Interaction Sphere -- Connectivity and Social Network Theory -- Network Models and the Aegean Bronze Age -- Seven Coastscapes and Small Worlds of the Aegean Bronze Age -- Making and Breaking a Small World: The Saronic Gulf, 3000-1200 BC -- The Physical Environment of the Saronic Gulf -- The Social Environment of the Saronic Gulf -- Kolonna and the Bronze Age Saronic Small World -- Kolonna and Mycenae in the Late Bronze Age -- Korphos-Kalamianos and the Saronic Small World -- Geomorphology of an Unlikely Harbor -- Results -- Beyond the Site: Korphos as a Bronze Age Regional Center -- Early Bronze Age -- Late Bronze Age -- Comparing Early and Late Bronze Age Exploitation
Additional Edition:
Print version Tartaron, Thomas F. Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107002982
Language:
English
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