The Connected Iron Age
Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE
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The Connected Iron Age
Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE
An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected.
The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Surveying the region from Greece to Iraq, one finds a host of cultures and political formations, all distinct, yet all visibly connected in meaningful ways. These include the early polities of Geometric period Greece, the Phrygian kingdom of central Anatolia, the Syro-Anatolian city-states, the seafaring Phoenicians and the biblical Israelites of the southern Levant, Egypt’s Twenty-first through Twenty-fifth Dynasties, the Urartian kingdom of the eastern Anatolian highlands, and the expansionary Neo-Assyrian Empire of northern Mesopotamia. This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and political significance of how interregional networks operated within and between Mediterranean cultures during that era.
The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Surveying the region from Greece to Iraq, one finds a host of cultures and political formations, all distinct, yet all visibly connected in meaningful ways. These include the early polities of Geometric period Greece, the Phrygian kingdom of central Anatolia, the Syro-Anatolian city-states, the seafaring Phoenicians and the biblical Israelites of the southern Levant, Egypt’s Twenty-first through Twenty-fifth Dynasties, the Urartian kingdom of the eastern Anatolian highlands, and the expansionary Neo-Assyrian Empire of northern Mesopotamia. This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and political significance of how interregional networks operated within and between Mediterranean cultures during that era.
272 pages | 40 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2022
History: Ancient and Classical History, European History, Middle Eastern History
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Chapter 1
Interregional Interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Iron Age
James F. Osborne and Jonathan M. Hall
Chapter 2
Phoenicians and the Iron Age Mediterranean: A Response to Phoenicoskepticism
Carolina López-Ruiz
Chapter 3
Mediterranean Interconnections beyond the City: Rural Consumption and Trade in Archaic Cyprus
Catherine Kearns
Chapter 4
Connectivity, Style, and Decorated Metal Bowls in the Iron Age Mediterranean
Marian H. Feldman
Chapter 5
Close Encounters of the Lasting Kind: Greeks, Phoenicians, and Others in the Iron Age Mediterranean
Sarah P. Morris
Chapter 6
The Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the Early First Millennium BCE: Greeks, Phoenicians, Phrygians, and Lydians
Susan Sherratt
Chapter 7
Greeks, Phoenicians, Phrygians, Trojans, and Other Creatures in the Aegean: Connections, Interactions, Misconceptions
John K. Papadopoulos
Chapter 8
Anatolia, the Aegean, and the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Material Connections
Ann C. Gunter
Chapter 9
Egypt and the Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age
Brian Muhs
Chapter 10
Globalizing the Mediterranean’s Iron Age
Tamar Hodos
Chapter 11
Six Provocations in Search of a Pretext
Michael Dietler
Contributors
Index
Preface
Chapter 1
Interregional Interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Iron Age
James F. Osborne and Jonathan M. Hall
Chapter 2
Phoenicians and the Iron Age Mediterranean: A Response to Phoenicoskepticism
Carolina López-Ruiz
Chapter 3
Mediterranean Interconnections beyond the City: Rural Consumption and Trade in Archaic Cyprus
Catherine Kearns
Chapter 4
Connectivity, Style, and Decorated Metal Bowls in the Iron Age Mediterranean
Marian H. Feldman
Chapter 5
Close Encounters of the Lasting Kind: Greeks, Phoenicians, and Others in the Iron Age Mediterranean
Sarah P. Morris
Chapter 6
The Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the Early First Millennium BCE: Greeks, Phoenicians, Phrygians, and Lydians
Susan Sherratt
Chapter 7
Greeks, Phoenicians, Phrygians, Trojans, and Other Creatures in the Aegean: Connections, Interactions, Misconceptions
John K. Papadopoulos
Chapter 8
Anatolia, the Aegean, and the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Material Connections
Ann C. Gunter
Chapter 9
Egypt and the Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age
Brian Muhs
Chapter 10
Globalizing the Mediterranean’s Iron Age
Tamar Hodos
Chapter 11
Six Provocations in Search of a Pretext
Michael Dietler
Contributors
Index