... to the introduction of goods, but to the introduction of the ideas and knowledge of their makers. The processes of precious metalworking, briefly outlined in the case study of developments and changes in late Bronze Age/early Iron Age Iberian society, support the proposition that metal technology can reflect social...

...In the Late Bronze Age, the polities in the South Caucasus developed a new assemblage directed toward transforming charismatic authority into formal sovereignty. This chapter examines the assembling of this political machine, which drew the civilization and war machines into an extensive apparatus...

...Mycenaean society of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1675–1050 B.C.) Aegean world is well known as a hierarchical culture from its archaeology, mortuary patterns, and dietary structure. In particular, Mycenaean culture featured complex heterarchies in terms of class, sex, and gender. Skeletal remains from...

..., reaching unprecedented peaks of intelligent, and commonsensical, refinement. archaeologists archaeology Late Bronze Age Crete Aegean MERVYN POPHAM 345 Mervyn Popham was a questioning, quiet person, driven by an uncompromising honesty to find the truth, and always ready to doubt accepted...

... Levantine art and works from the preceding Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-1200/1180 BCE), here taking a particular set of animal markings as a case study, assume heightened meaningfulness within the context of newly emerging communities of identity in the early Iron Age Levant (10^th and 9^th...

...The great wave of destruction and abandonment of Mycenaean sites at or near the end of the Late Helladic IIIB period is one of the inescapable landmarks of the Aegean Late Bronze Age. For the past twenty years and more, however, many scholars have also seen it as something else: as the occasion...

...Willemijn Waal, Closing the Gap: Writing in the Aegean from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age In: Writing from Invention to Decipherment. Edited by: Silvia Ferrara, Barbara Montecchi, and Miguel Valério, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024...

... discusses the history of Assyria between the sixteenth and eleventh centuries bc, which saw a small merchant city-state with little political clout rise to prominence in Upper Mesopotamia and beyond to become one of the leading powers on the Late Bronze Age. Through the study of royal inscriptions...

... 1 Variety Is the Spice of Life Introduction and Discussion Joanne M. A. Murphy The goal of this volume is to generate discussion on the variability in burial practices in Greece during the Late Bronze Age (LBA) and to create a more nuanced understanding of the society by bringing together a group...

... mule vassal Assur horse chariot passport relay communication system road rock relief festival royal court royal ideology State communication Long-distance communication Letter Messenger Envoy Anatolia Hittite Empire Late Bronze Age Cuneiform tablet Wooden writing tablet...

...Mycenaean civilization developed, grew to great heights, and collapsed, all during the Late Bronze Age. Rooted in Greece, where the period is called the Late Helladic (LH) period, the beginning, internal divisions, and end of this historical framework are based almost entirely on pottery styles...

... period mobility non local individuals Urnfield period mobility grave goods kinship nationalism migration mobility Late Bronze Age Early Iron Age Carpathian region Alpine region interdisciplinarity ontologies in archaeological interpretation Migration is currently one of the most...

... archaeological sites Malatya Plain Chalcolithic period Syro-Mesopotamia Transcaucasia Hittite civilization Late Bronze Age Arslantepe is a tell about 4.5 hectares in extension and 30 meters high, at the heart of the fertile Malatya Plain, some 12 kilometers from the right bank of the Euphrates...

...On the northern border of Mycenaean civilization and encompassing several ecological zones, the province of Thessaly represents an opportunity to test the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model involving processes such as acculturation and ethnogenesis in a border/frontier zone. In the Late Bronze Age (c...

...Iron Age conditions in Sicily are considered to see what role the preceding geographical and historical setting played in shaping the societies and economies established by Greeks. Sicily lost its status as the core of East-West exchange that it had in Late Bronze Age interregional networks...

...This chapter presents examples of social modelling in the Seine valley from the late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age (fourteenth–fifth century bc) using data from funerary and settlement contexts. It illustrates the strong socio-economic hierarchy of settlements at the end of the early...

..., partly because the steady growth in their number has increased their variability, posing new challenges to research, but also because they still hold a somewhat disproportionate relative significance for the archaeological study of the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age societies in the region...

..., the chapter also describes the Canaanite cultural continuum from the Middle Bronze Age through the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. El Israel Yahweh Yahweh origins of Genesis Exodus Psalms Cross Frank Moore El Olam El worship Hebrew Bible Iron Age Tetragrammaton Yahweh name of Isaiah Habakkuk...

... Late Bronze Age collapse Philistines pottery Sea Peoples crowd diseases The story now moves beyond the mid-Holocene. By around 4000 b.c.e., viable agrarian settlements had appeared in many parts of the world. Not only could larger populations be supported, but surplus food produced...

...Joanne M. A. Murphy, Variety is the Spice of Life In: Death in Late Bronze Age Greece. Edited by: Joanne M. A. Murphy, Oxford University Press (2020). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190926069.003.0001 The goal of this volume is to generate discussion on the variability in burial...