Oxbow Advent Calendar 2022 – Day 9

Aegean & Mediterranean Prehistory

Moving somewhat south from our explorations yesterday, but still exploring our prehistoric roots, Day 9 brings us to the Aegean!

Use code ADVENT09 when shopping at Casemate Academic to get 50% off these five books. This code is valid for today only, offer ending midnight.


Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean

Practices and Adaptations

Philippa M. Steele, Philip J. Boyes

Perspectives on and approaches to problems of early writing in the ancient Mediterranean.

9781789258509

Hardcover

320 Pages

Representations

Material and immaterial modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean

John Bennet

Addresses the types of written and non-written communication used during the Aegean Bronze Age.

9781789256413

Paperback

352 Pages

Archaeology of the Ionian Sea

Landscapes, seascapes and the circulation of people, goods and ideas from the Palaeolithic to the end of the Bronze Age

Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, Christina Papoulia

A new, cutting-edge archaeological investigation into the Ionian Sea from the beginning of the Palaeolithic to the end of the Bronze Age.

9781789256734

Hardcover

232 Pages

Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in an Age of Globalization

Anna Kouremenos, Jody Michael Gordon

Explores how comparative archaeologies of insularity can contribute to discourse onancient Mediterranean “globalization”

9781789253443

Paperback

304 Pages

Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece

Materials Science applied to trace ancient technologies in the Aegean world

Marina Panagiotaki, Ilias Tomazos, Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos

Focuses on innovations in fire-based technologies (metallurgy, ceramics, glass etc)  of the Bronze Age-Byzantine periods in the Aegean region..

9781789252989

Hardcover

256 Pages