From Mycenae to Knossos and beyond, embark on your very own odyssey of the Bronze Age Aegean with these ten must-reads on the topic. Uncover the reality behind the myths of this period with books exploring long-distance travel, woven textiles, economics, writing systems and more.
Knossos, Mycenae, Troy
The Enchanting Bronze Age and its Tumultuous Climax
Natale Barca
This book charts the rise, interplay between and fall of the great civilisations of the Bronze Age Aegean. It considers the role and efficacy of the great legends of the period against the archaeological evidence and follows the fortunes and crises, wars and natural disasters that led to their decline.
Oxbow Books | Paperback | 9781789259476
Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond
Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and its Reflection in Myth
Joerg Mull
The Late Bronze Age from about 1600 to 1150 BCE was a time of unprecedented economic activity in human history based on the supply and production of the eponymous alloy bronze on an almost industrial scale. The supply networks for copper and tin during this period stretched over large parts of western Eurasia and included long distance maritime transport. Using Greek myths, this volume explores long distance connections during this period, focussing on Mycenaean society.
Sidestone Press | Paperback | 9789464260779
Labouring with Large Stones
A Study into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece
Yannick Boswinkel
This book explores the cost, expressed in labour, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. 1600 – 1050 BCE). It provides insights into building processes, the impact of material and building styles on construction costs as well as the large varieties that exist within a context collectively known as ‘Mycenaean’.
Sidestone Press | Paperback | 9789464280098
Social Groups and Production in Mycenaean Economies
Papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 24-25 February 2023
Edited by Daniel J Pullen
The main goal of this volume is to look at social groups involved in economic activity other than members of the palace-based institutions and “elites” in Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Greek societies. The palaces and elites are the usual subject of studies of ancient economies, often from a top-down approach, but here we consider a fuller range of the members of a society, their organization, their institutions, and their contributions to the economies of those societies from bottom-up approaches.
Sidestone Press | Paperback | 9789464263329
Woven Threads
Patterned Textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age
Edited by Maria C Shaw & Anne P Chapin
Together with their wine, oil, and art, Minoan and Mycenaean textiles were much desired as trade goods. Artistic images of their fabrics preserved both in the Aegean and in other parts of the Mediterranean show elaborate patterns woven with rich decorative detail and colour. This volume investigates evidence for these textiles, which played essential practical and social roles in both Minoan and Mycenaean societies.
Oxbow Books | Paperback | 9781789257342
Representations
Material and Immaterial Modes of Communication in the Bronze Age Aegean
Edited by John Bennet
This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on ‘Technologies of Representation’ and ‘Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean’.
Oxbow Books | Paperback | 9781789256413
Knossos: From First to Second Palace
An Integrated Ceramic, Stratigraphic, and Architectural Study
Carl Knappett, Colin F Macdonald & Iro Mathioudaki
This volume presents the pottery from a series of deposits excavated by Sir Arthur Evans in the palace at Knossos and assigned by him to the last part of the Middle Bronze Age or Middle Minoan III. It demonstrates that much new information can be extracted from legacy material excavated more than a century ago, through the use of a methodology that integrates ceramic, stratigraphic and architectural evidence.
British School at Athens | Hardback | 9780904887747
Knossos: The House of the Frescoes
Emilia Oddo
This volume presents a complete study of the architecture and finds from the House of the Frescoes at Knossos, first uncovered by Sir Arthur Evans and Duncan Mackenzie in 1923 and 1926. Reinvestigation of the House took place in 2016–2019 and results offer new insights into the architecture and finds’ contexts, as well as fresh perspectives on the building’s occupation, purpose and abandonment. The emerging picture helps to shed further light on the character of Knossos, pre-eminent centre of Minoan Crete at the height of the Bronze Age.
British School at Athens | Hardback | 9780904887730
The Masons’ Marks of Minoan Knossos
Sinclair Hood
Edited by Lisa Maria Bendall
The signs known as ‘masons’ marks’ were carved on blocks of stone in Bronze Age Crete over a period of some 500 years from around 2000 BC until the middle of the 15th century BC. This two-volume study catalogues some 1600 masons’ marks in the Palace of Knossos and surrounding buildings, presenting a typology and chronology of the signs, and providing a detailed discussion of their purpose.
British School at Athens | Hardback | 9780904887716
The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi
Volume II – Biomolecular and Epigraphical Investigations
Edited by Yannis Tzedakis, Holley Martlew & Michael J Tite
The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi, Crete (ca. 1390–1190 BC) is the only intact, complete Late Minoan necropolis presently known, of which 232 tombs have been excavated. This book unlocks the fascinating secrets of this bronze age site, presenting DNA and stable isotopic results from 23 burials and identifying the settlement as da-*22-to.
Oxbow Books | Paperback | 9798888570463
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