Book contents
- Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
- British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity
- Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Technological Mobilities: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean – An Introduction
- 2 The Transmitting Sea: A Mediterranean Perspective
- 3 Changing Pottery Technology in the Later Neolithic in Macedonia, North Greece
- 4 Mobility and Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean Metal Production
- 5 Stonemasons and Craft Mobility in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
- 6 Towards an Understanding of the Origin of Late Bronze Age Greek Glass
- 7 Mobilities in the Neopalatial Southern Aegean: The Case of Minoanisation
- 8 The Archaeological Signatures of Mobility: A Technological Look at ‘Aegeanising’ Pottery from the Northern Levant at the End of the 2nd Millennium BC
- 9 Mycenaean and Mycenaeanising Pottery across the Mediterranean: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Technological Mobility, Transmission and Appropriation
- 10 Interpreting Bronze Age Trade and Migration
- 11 Commentary: States and Technological Mobility – A View from the West
- 12 Commentary: On Fluxes, Connections and their Archaeological Manifestations
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - The Transmitting Sea: A Mediterranean Perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2017
Book contents
- Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
- British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity
- Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Technological Mobilities: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean – An Introduction
- 2 The Transmitting Sea: A Mediterranean Perspective
- 3 Changing Pottery Technology in the Later Neolithic in Macedonia, North Greece
- 4 Mobility and Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean Metal Production
- 5 Stonemasons and Craft Mobility in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
- 6 Towards an Understanding of the Origin of Late Bronze Age Greek Glass
- 7 Mobilities in the Neopalatial Southern Aegean: The Case of Minoanisation
- 8 The Archaeological Signatures of Mobility: A Technological Look at ‘Aegeanising’ Pottery from the Northern Levant at the End of the 2nd Millennium BC
- 9 Mycenaean and Mycenaeanising Pottery across the Mediterranean: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Technological Mobility, Transmission and Appropriation
- 10 Interpreting Bronze Age Trade and Migration
- 11 Commentary: States and Technological Mobility – A View from the West
- 12 Commentary: On Fluxes, Connections and their Archaeological Manifestations
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Abstract
The prehistoric Mediterranean provides an unusually, if not uniquely, favourable environment for human mobility and the exchange and spread of technologies, as well as exceptional conditions for the archaeological investigation of such phenomena. This chapter explores why, and also offers a long-term perspective on changes in technologies of mobility, especially at sea in the form of boats. It closes with some thoughts on the fundamental importance of a demographic perspective on the core issues analysed in this volume, both at a macro and micro level.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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