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Beyond Thalassocracies aims to evaluate and rethink the manner in
which archaeologists approach, understand, and analyse the various
processes associated with culture change connected to interregional
contact, using as a test case the world of the Aegean during the
Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-1100 BC). The 14 chapters compare and
contrast various aspects of the phenomena of Minoanisation and
Mycenaeanisation, both of which share the basic underlying defining
feature of material culture change in communities around the
Aegean. This change was driven by trends manifesting themselves in
the dominant palatial communities of each period of the Bronze Age.
Over the past decade, our understanding of how these processes
developed and functioned has changed considerably. Whereas current
discussions on Minoanisation have already been informed by more
recent theoretical trends, especially in material culture studies
and post-colonial theory, the process of Mycenaeanisation is still
very much conceptualised along traditional lines of explanation.
Since these phenomena occurred in chronological sequence, it makes
sense that any reappraisal of their nature and significance should
target those regions of the Aegean basin that were affected by both
processes, highlighting their similarities and differences. Thus,
in the present volume we focus on the southern and eastern Aegean,
in particular the Cyclades, Dodecanese, and the north-eastern
Aegean islands.
The volume presents proceedings of the second international
conference dedited to the study of relations between Egypt, the
Aegean, the Levant and the Sudan in the 2nd and 1st millenia BCE.
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