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The Tourists Gaze, The Cretans Glance
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 32.95As researchers bring their analytic skills to bear on contemporary archaeological tourism, they find that it is as much about the present as the past. Philip Duke’s study of tourists gazing at the remains of Bronze Age Crete highlights this nexus between past and present, between exotic and mundane. Using personal diaries, ethnographic interviews,... more...
Eteta
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2011; US$ 37.50This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium on the archaeology of houses and households in ancient Crete held in Ierapetra in May 2005. The 38 papers presented here range from a discussion of household activities at Final Neolithic Phaistos to the domestic correlates of globalization during the early Roman Empire. These... more...
The Early Bronze Age Village on Tsoungiza Hill
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2011; US$ 75.00While "corridor houses" such as the House of the Tiles at Lerna have provoked widespread discussion about the origins of social stratification in Greece, few settlements of the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3100 to 2000 B.C.) have been thoroughly excavated. This important study integrates the presentation and analysis of the archaeological evidence... more...
Die Welt Homers
Primus Verlag 2011; US$ 15.09Hauptbeschreibung Jörg Fündling öffnet den Blick auf die großen Epen Homers und somit zugleich auf drei Zeitalter der griechischen Geschichte, die sich in "Ilias" und "Odyssee" gespiegelt finden. Im Kapitel über den "Großen Aufbruch" geht es um die archaische Zeit: wachsender Wohlstand, Übergewicht der Inselgriechen und Kleinasiens, Kolonisation,... more...
The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History
Wiley 2012; US$ 140.95The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History reveals the role of the complex interaction of Mediterranean seafaring and maritime connections in the development of the ancient Greek city-states. Offers fascinating insights into the origins of urbanization in the ancient Mediterranean, including the Greek city-state Based on the most recent... more...
Stadt und Landschaft Homers
Philipp von Zabern Verlag 2010; US$ 15.09Hauptbeschreibung Troia und sein Umfeld: Hier lenkten die Götter das Schicksal der Helden. Durch die Beiträge und die beiliegende Karte wird dieses Buch zu einer wahren Fundgrube für Homer-Fans. Der vorliegende Band stellt die vielschichtige Kultur und Natur dieser Landschaft vor, die selbst Troia-Besucher meist nicht kennenlernen. Wer weiß schon,... more...
Back to the Beginning
Oxbow Books 2011; US$ 40.00Ever since their first discovery, more than a century ago, the Minoan Palaces have dominated scholarship on the Cretan Bronze Age. Opinion long held that their first appearance, seemingly at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age, marked a pivotal transformation point, during which the simple, egalitarian societies of the Early Bronze Age were transformed... more...
Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age
Oxbow Books 2010; US$ 30.00This volume brings together an international group of researchers to address how Mycenaean and Minoan states controlled the economy. The contributions, originally delivered at the 2007 Langford Conference at the Florida State University, examine the political economies of state (and pre-state) entities within the Aegean Bronze Age, including the issues... more...
Greece in the Making 1200¿479 BC
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 41.95Greece in the Making 1200?479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic poems and inscriptions, the majority of our literary evidence for archaic Greece reported only... more...









