Maritime networks in the Mycenaean world

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Maritime networks in the Mycenaean world

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Thomas Tartaron

Creator

• Tartaron, Thomas F

Subject

• Civilization, Mycenaean
• Coast changes -- Greece -- History
• Aegean Sea -- Navigation | History -- To 1500
• Greece -- Commerce | History, Ancient
• Navigation -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
• Coastal archaeology -- Greece -- Methodology

Language

eng

Summary

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. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. These long-distance relations have been celebrated and much studied; by contrast, the vibrant worlds of local maritime interaction and exploitation of the sea have been virtually ignored. Dr Tartaron argues that local maritime networks, in the form of 'coastscapes' and 'small worlds', are far more representative of the true fabric of Mycenaean life. He offers a complete template of conceptual and methodological tools for recovering small worlds and the communities that inhabited them. Combining archaeological, geoarchaeological and anthropological approaches with ancient texts and network theory, he demonstrates the application of this scheme in several case studies. This book presents new perspectives and challenges for all archaeologists with interests in maritime connectivity.--

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Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks