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The Etruscan World
The Etruscans can be shown to have made significant, and in some cases perhaps the first, technical advances in the central and northern Mediterranean. To the Etruscan people we can attribute such developments as the tie-beam truss in large wooden structures, surveying and engineering drainage and water tunnels, the development of the foresail for fast long-distance sailing vessels, fine techniques of metal production and other pyrotechnology, post-mortem C-sections in medicine, and more. In art, many technical and iconographic developments, although they certainly happened first in Greece or the Near East, are first seen in extant Etruscan works, preserved in the lavish tombs and goods of E...
The Iberian Peninsula in the Iron Age through Pottery Studies
Seven papers read at the international conference, Interdisciplinary research on pottery from the Iberian Peninsula (Poznań, 2019) deal with various aspects of Iron Age pottery including technology, decoration, chemical and mineralogical properties, commerce and social use through archaeological science and the presentation of ongoing fieldwork.
In Search of the Phoenicians
Who were the ancient Phoenicians—and did they actually exist? The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the "Phoenicians" never actually existed as such. Taking readers from the ancient world to today, this book argues that the notion of these sailors as a coherent people with a shared identity, history, and culture is a product of modern nationalist ideologies—and a notion very much at odds with the ancient sources.
Collision of Worlds
"Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortâes joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec empire. It served as a template for the forging of much of Latin America and began the globalized world we inhabit today. This violent encounter and the new colonial order it created, a New Spain, was millennia in the making, with independent cultural developments on both sides of the Atlantic and their fateful entanglement during the pivotal Aztec-Spanish war of 1519-1521. Collision of World examines the deep history of this encounter with an archaeo...
Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age
Bringing together the research of internationally renowned scholars, Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age contributes significantly to our understanding of the epoch-making artistic and cultural exchanges that took place across the Near East and Mediterranean in the early first millennium B.C. This was the world of Odysseus, in which seafaring Phoenician merchants charted new nautical trade routes and established prosperous trading posts and colonies on the shores of three continents; of kings Midas and Croesus, legendary for their wealth; and of the Hebrew Bible, whose stories are brought vividly to life by archaeological discoveries. Objects drawn from collections in the Midd...
La Fonteta 3
Las cerámicas griegas e itálicas de La Fonteta corresponden a unos documentos arqueológicos del máximo interés para la arqueología de la provincia de Alicante, de la Protohistoria de la península ibérica y de la colonización del Mediterráneo occidental. Un interés que no reside únicamente en los vasos en sí, sino también en lo que indica su repertorio, sus formas y su adopción diacrítica por parte de los fenicios de La Fonteta. Una combinación que dibuja un comportamiento comercial, cultural y social complejo cuyo estudio requiere de un esfuerzo metodológico y de la colaboración entre especialistas de muy amplio espectro, que parte de la correcta identificación de cada uno de los testimonios materiales estudiados y su comparación con los grupos tipológicos en Grecia o Italia para, seguidamente, caracterizar el conjunto y compararlo con los repertorios de importaciones griegas e itálicas en otros emporios o ciudades fenicias del Mediterráneo occidental.
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