Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean

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• The definitive reference work for all scholars and students
• Newly commissioned essays by an international team of experts
• Surveys archaeology, art & architecture, religion, trade, warfare, and other key aspects of the period

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 Greek religious practices and mythology. The period also witnessed a violent conflict in Asia Minor between warring peoples in the region, a conflict commonly believed to be the historical basis for Homer's Trojan War. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean provides a detailed survey of these fascinating aspects of the period, and many others, in sixty-six newly commissioned articles.

Divided into four sections, the handbook begins with Background and Definitions, which contains articles establishing the discipline in its historical, geographical, and chronological settings and in its relation to other disciplines. The second section, Chronology and Geography, contains articles examining the Bronze Age Aegean by chronological period (Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age). Each of the periods are further subdivided geographically, so that individual articles are concerned with Mainland Greece during the Early Bronze Age, Crete during the Early Bronze Age, the Cycladic Islands during the Early Bronze Age, and the same for the Middle Bronze Age, followed by the Late Bronze Age. The third section, Thematic and Specific Topics, includes articles examining thematic topics that cannot be done justice in a strictly chronological/geographical treatment, including religion, state and society, trade, warfare, pottery, writing, and burial customs, as well as specific events, such as the eruption of Santorini and the Trojan War. The fourth section, Specific Sites and Areas, contains articles examining the most important regions and sites in the Bronze Age Aegean, including Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos, Knossos, Kommos, Rhodes, the northern Aegean, and the Uluburun shipwreck, as well as adjacent areas such as the Levant, Egypt, and the western Mediterranean.

Containing new work by an international team of experts, The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean represents the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date single-volume survey of the field. It will be indispensable for scholars and advanced students alike.

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Section I:
Background and Definitions
1. Muhly, James D. / History of Research
2. Manning, Sturt W. / Chronology and Terminology

Section II:
Chronology and Geography
3. Tomkins, Peter / Neolithic Antecedents 

Early Bronze Age
4. Forsen, Jeannette / Mainland Greece
5. Tomkins, Peter - Ilse Schoep / Crete
6. Renfrew, Colin / Cyclades

Middle Bronze Age
7. Voutsaki, Sofia / Mainland Greece
8. Ilse, Schoep / Crete
9. Barber, Robin L. N. / Cyclades

Late Bronze Age
10. Shelton, Kim / Mainland Greece
11. Hallager, Erik / Crete
12. Barber, Robin L. N. / Cyclades
13. Jung, Reinhard / End of the Bronze Age

Section III:
Thematic Topics - Art and Architecture
14. Hitchcock, Louise / Minoan Architecture
15. Hitchcock, Louise / Mycenaean Architecture
16. Tzonou-Herbst, Ioulia / Figurines
17. Chapin, Anne P. / Frescoes

Society and Culture
18. Nakassis, Dimitri - Michael L. Galaty - William A. Parkinson / State and Society
19. Lupack, Susan / Minoan Religion
20. Lupack, Susan / Mycenaean Religion
21. Mee, Christopher / Death and Burial
22. Burns, Bryan E. / Trade
23. Georganas, Ioannis / Weapons and Warfare

Seals and Writing/Administrative Systems
24. Weingarten, Judith / Minoan Seals and Sealings
25. Younger, John G. / Mycenaean Seals and Sealings
26. Tomas, Helena / Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A
27. Palaima, Thomas G. / Linear B
28. Hirschfeld, Nicolle / Cypro-Minoan

Material Crafts
29. Evely, Doniert G. / Materials and Industries
30. Hallager, Birgitta / Minoan Pottery
31. Rutter, Jeremy B. / Mycenaean Pottery
32. Burke, Brendan / Textiles
33. Laffineur, Robert / Jewellery

Events
34. Manning, Sturt W. / Eruption of Thera/Santorini
35. Bryce, Trevor / Trojan War
36. Dickinson, Oliver / The Collapse at the End of the Bronze Age

Section IV:
Specific Sites and Regions - Crete
37. La Rosa, Vincenzo / Ayia Triada 
38. Lefteris, Platon / Kato Zakros
39. Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Maria / Khania (Kydonia)
40. Macdonald, Colin / Knossos
41. Shaw, Joseph and Maria / Kommos
42. Driessen, Jan / Malia
43. MacGillivray, J. Alexander - L. Hugh Sackett / Palaikastro
44. La Rosa, Vincenzo / Phaistos

Mainland Greece
45. Voutsaki, Sofia / Argolid
46. Dakouri-Hild, Anastasia / Boeotia
47. Cavanagh, William G. / Central and Southern Peloponnese
48. Andreou, Stelios / Northern Aegean
49. Wiencke, Martha / Lerna
50. French, Elizabeth / Mycenae
51. Davis, Jack L. / Pylos
52. Dakouri-Hild, Anastasia / Thebes
53. Laffineur, Robert / Thorikos
54. Maran, Joseph / Tiryns

Cyclades / Dodecanese / and Saronic Islands
55. Gauss, Walter / Aegina Kolonna
56. Doumas, Christos / Akrotiri
57. Marketou, Toula / Dodecanese
58. Marketou, Toula / Rhodes

Wider Mediterranean
59. Bass, George F. / Cape Gelidonya shipwreck
60. Steel, Louise / Cyprus
61. Phillips, Jacke / Egypt
62. Yasur-Landau, Assaf / Levant
63. Jablonka, Peter / Troy
64. Pulak, Cemal / Uluburun shipwreck
65. Greaves, Alan M. / Western Anatolia