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A. Knapp | Stella Demesticha
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Abu Hawam
Aegean archaeology
ages
amphora typology
ancient trade networks
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Author_Stella Demesticha
bronze
Bronze Age
Bronze Age maritime transport analysis
bulk cargo vessels
canaanite
Canaanite Jar
Cape Gelidonya
Category=NHC
Category=NHTM
Category=NKD
coastal exchange systems
containers
Deir El Balah
early
Early Helladic
EIA
Eighth Century Bc
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eq_history
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eq_isMigrated=2
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Group Ii
Hala Sultan Tekke
iron
Iron Age
jar
late
Late Bronze Age
LBA
LC
maritime
Maritime Transport Containers
Marsa Matruh
Mid-third Millennium Bc
Nirou Chani
Petrographic Analyses
prehistoric seafaring
Pyla Kokkinokremos
Southern Levant
Stirrup Jars
Storage Jars
transport
Transport Amphorae
Uluburun Shipwreck

Product details

  • ISBN 9781629583549
  • Weight: 580g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Aug 2016
  • Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200–700 BC). Analysis of this category of objects broadens our understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. These containers have often been the subject of specific and detailed pottery studies, but have seldom been examined in the context of connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.

This broad study:

  • considers the likely origins of these types of vessels;

  • traces their development and spread throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean as archetypal organic bulk cargo containers;

  • discusses the wider impact on Mediterranean connections, transport and trade over a period of 2,500 years covering the Bronze and early Iron Ages.

Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.
About A. Knapp | Stella Demesticha
A. Bernard Knapp is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute. He co-edits the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology with John F. Cherry and Peter van Dommelen and is the general editor of the series Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology. Stella Demesticha is Associate Professor of Maritime Archaeology in the Archaeological Research Unit, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus. She specializes in maritime archaeology, with an interest in shipwreck amphorae, ancient seaborne trade routes and economy in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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