Of Odysseys and Oddities: Scales and Modes of Interaction Between Prehistoric Aegean Societies and their Neighbours

by Barry Molloy (Editor)

Overview

Of Odysseys and Oddities is about scales and modes of interaction in prehistory, specifically between societies on both sides of the Aegean and with their nearest neighbors overland to the north and east. The 17 contributions reflect on tensions at the core of how we consider interaction in archaeology, particularly the motivations and mechanisms leading to social and material encounters or displacements. Linked to this are the ways we conceptualize spatial and social entities in past societies (scales) and how we learn about who was actively engaged in interaction and how and why they were (modes). The papers provide a broad chronological, spatial and material range but, taken together, they critically address many of the ways that scales and modes of interaction are considered in archaeological discourse. Ultimately, the intention is to foreground material culture analysis in the development of the arguments presented within this volume, informed, but not driven, by theoretical positions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785702327
Publisher:	Oxbow Books
Publication date:	08/31/2016
Series:	Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	8 MB

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

1 Introduction: Thinking of Scales and Modes of interaction in Prehistory Barry P.C. Molloy 1

2 An Elite-Infested Sea: Interaction and Change in Mediterranean Paradigms Borja Legarra Herrero 25

3 Scales and Modes of Interaction in and beyond the Earlier Neolithic of Greece: Building Barriers and Making Connections Paul Halstead 53

4 Impressed Pottery as a Proxy for Connectivity in the Neolithic Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Çiler Çilingiroglu 75

5 A Question of Scale? Connecting Communities through Obsidian Exchange in the Neolithic Aegean, Anatolia and Balkans Marina Milic 97

6 Salting the Roads: Connectivity in the Neolithic Balkans Dushka Urem-Kotsou 123

7 Aspects of Connectivity on the Centre of the Anatolian Aegean Coast in 7th Millennium BC Barbara Horejs 143

8 Kanligeçit - Selimpasa - Mikhalich and the Question of Anatolian Colonies in Early Bronze Age Southeast Europe Volker Heyd Sengül Aydingün Emre Güldogan 169

9 The Built Environment and Cultural Connectivity in the Aegean Early Bronze Age Ourania Kouka 203

10 Emerging Economic Complexity in the Aegean and Western Anatolia during Earlier Third Millennium BC Lorenz Rahmstorf 225

11 Trade and Weighing Systems in the Southern Aegean from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age: How Changing Circuits Influenced Changing 'Glocal' Measures Maria Emanuela Alberti 277

12 'Brave New Worlds': Islands, Place-making and Connectivity in the Bronze Age Mediterranean Helen Dawson 323

13 Nought may Endure but Mutability: Eclectic Encounters and Material Change in the 13th to 11th Centuries BC Aegean Barry P.C. Molloy 343

14 Distributed Practice and Cultural Identities in the 'Mycenaean' Period Michael J. Boyd 385

15 Anatolian-Aegean interactions in the Early Iron Age: Migration, Mobility, and the Movement of People Naoíse Mac Sweeney 411

16 Komai, Colonies and Cities in Epirus and Southern Albania: The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Urbanism on the Fringes of the Greek World John K. Papadopoulos 435

Editorial Reviews

Overall, this volume is an important contribution to Aegean archaeology and the growing literature on mobility and interaction… a valuable resource with up-to-date material studies of the prehistoric Aegean that deserves a wide audience and inclusion in archaeological libraries.

Georgia M. Andreou