Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 Technological Mobilities: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean – An Introduction
	The New Mobilities Paradigm
	Mobility in Archaeological Theory
	Mobility and the Mediterranean
	Two Problems with Mobility
	Suggestions
	Methodology – Technologies
	Biological Approaches to Scale
	A Situated Learning Approach
	Volume Organisation
	Concluding Comments
2 The Transmitting Sea: A Mediterranean Perspective
	Mediterranean Advantages
	Technologies of Mobility
	The Demographics of Transmission
3 Changing Pottery Technology in the Later Neolithic in Macedonia, North Greece
	Northern Greece in the Neolithic
	Old and New Traditions: MN and LN Pottery Production and Consumption
	Mobility of Other Forms of Material Culture
	Discussion
	Conclusions
4 Mobility and Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean Metal Production
	Introduction
	Metal Production and Metalworking
	EBA Southern Aegean Metal Production: An Inherently Mobile Chaîne Opératoire
		Distribution of Ore Sources Exploited in the EBA Southern Aegean
		Distribution of EBA Aegean Smelting Sites
			Scale
			Proximity of smelting to possible ore sources
			Proximity of smelting sites to contemporaneous settlements
		Chronology of EBA Aegean Smelting Sites
		Mobility in EBA Aegean Metal Production
	Technological Traditions in EBA Southern Aegean Smelting
	Discussion
5 Stonemasons and Craft Mobility in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
	Introduction
	Contexts for Learning
	Egyptian Stone-Working: 3rd–2nd Millennium BC
		Aswan West Bank
		Widan el-Faras
		Userkaf and Phyles
	Late Bronze Age Aegean Stone-Working
		Minoan Crete
		Mycenaean Greece
	Conclusions
6 Towards an Understanding of the Origin of Late Bronze Age Greek Glass
	Introduction
	Objects and Technology
	Provenance
	Evidence for Exchange of Glass
	Greek Glass
	Isotopes and Reinterpretation
7 Mobilities in the Neopalatial Southern Aegean:
	Introduction
	Existing Approaches
	A Multi-Scale ‘Learning’ Model
	Mobility of Minoanising Technologies
		Wall Paintings
		Pottery
	Discussion: Technological Mobility through Space and Time
	Conclusions
8 The Archaeological Signatures of Mobility: A Technological Look at ‘Aegeanising’ Pottery from the Northern Levant ...
	Introduction
	The ‘Aegeanisation’ Process of the Levant
	The Archaeological Signature of Immigrant Artisans
		Technological Variability in the Manufacturing Sequence
	Micro-Scale Approach: Aegean and Aegean-Style Wares from Tell Kazel (Syria)
	Conclusion: Bridging Local Histories to Wider Regional Perspectives
9 Mycenaean and Mycenaeanising Pottery across the Mediterranean:
	Introduction
	Setting the Agenda
	The Top-Down Perspective
	The Bottom-Up Perspective
	Central Macedonia
	Central Mediterranean
	East Aegean and East Mediterranean
	Concluding Remarks
10 Interpreting Bronze Age Trade and Migration
	Introduction
	Theorising Mobility: Cognitive Geographies and Networks
	The Rise of New Mobility Technologies and Institutions
	The Formation of New Maritime Institutions in Scandinavia and Beyond
	Land-Based Networks: Traders and Travelling Warriors during the 15th and 14th Centuries bc in Europe, and Links with ...
	The 12th-Century bc Exodus from the Po Valley and the Sea Peoples
	Conclusion: From Bronze Age World System to Bronze Age Value System
11 Commentary
	Introduction
	The Italian Example
	Mobility and the State
	Modelling the Movement of Specialists
	Conclusions
12 Commentary
	Connectivity
	Mobility
	Community
	Utility
Bibliography
Index