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Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World.
This book is a new analysis of maritime life among the Mycenaean Greeks (c.1600-1100 BC).
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- Conclusions: Mycenaean Ships and BoatsFour 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.
- Types of Maritime Communities in the Bronze Age AegeanTransmission 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 WorldGeoarchaeological 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.