The authors reconstruct the travel and transmission of knowledge that took place between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe. They explore how religious, political and social conceptions of Bronze Age people were informed by long-distance connections and alliances betwee…
Eastern Mediterranean metallurgy and metalwork in the second millennium BC: a conference in honour of James D. Muhly : Nicosi…
by Eastern Mediterranean metallurgy and metalwork in the second millennium BC:, Nicosia, Cyprus), Kassianidou, Vasiliki, Papasavvas, Giōrgos, Muhly, James David
The Trojan war: a very short introduction
The basic questions underlying the study are the following: 1) How do the concepts of drought, death and the sun relate to each other in the Ugaritic religious literature ; how are these concepts used as metaphors to express basic tenets of Ugaritic myth and theology? 2) How are…
La 4e de couverture porte : "This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitted to the Greeks a set of narrative traditions closely related to the one found at Bronze-Age Hattusa, t…
"Contributions examine all the key aspects of the Late Bronze Age as relevant to Biblical history"--Résumé de l'éditeur
In this book, Katina Lillios provides an up-to-date synthesis of the rich histories of the peoples who lived on the Iberian Peninsula between 1,400,000 (the Paleolithic) and 3,500 years ago (the Bronze Age) as revealed in their art, burials, tools, and monuments. She highlights …
Les montagnes sont souvent perçues comme des espaces peu et tardivement peuplés, en marge des grands axes d'échanges. Cependant, les recherches récentes ne cessent de faire reculer dans le temps et augmenter en altitude les plus anciennes traces de présence humaine en milieu mon…
"The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media, and the evolution of early…