Archaeology

TRANSFORMATION OF NEOLITHIC SOCIETIES, THE AN EASTERN PERSPECTIVE ON THE 3RD MILLLENIUM BC.

Author: Iversen, Rune
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2016
No. of pages: 228
Illustrations: 55 Color Illustrations. 42 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 11 1/2”x 8”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9788788475995
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 7122

Price: $150.00

This book is about socio-cultural developments in eastern Denmark during the 3rd millennium BC. The author's aim is to advance a new and coherent understanding of cultural and social developments as evident from the late Funnel Beaker period to the emergence of incipient Bronze Age societies at the onset of the 2nd millennium BC.

TRANSPORT AMPHORAE AND TRADE OF CYPRUS, THE .

Author: Lawall, Mark L, John Lund eds
Country: United Kigndom
Language: English
Year Published: 2013
No. of pages: 244
Illustrations: 99 Color Illustrations. 291 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 10”x 9”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9788771242133
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 6808

Price: $75.00

Placed as a stepping stone on the sea route between Europe and the New East, Cyprus has always been a meeting place of many cultures. Though rarely united politically through many millennia of history - and for extended periods subject to foreign rule - the island nonetheless managed to maintain specific and unique identities. This publication seeks to throw new light on important aspects of the economy of Cyprus between c. 700 BC and AD 700 through a concerted study of the transport amphorae found in and around the island. These standardised containers of fired clay were commonly used for shipping foodstuffs from their places of production to the consumers in antiquity. Completely preserved or found only in fragments, such vessels are a prime source of information about the island's exports and imports of agricultural products, and ultimately about the fluctuations in the economy of Cyprus through a crucial millennium and a half of her history. The jars thus contribute both to our undertanding of the changing intensities of Cypriot connections with other centres around the Mediterranean and to the documentation of regional patterning within the island itself.