Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean

This volume presents the outcomes of the European Science Foundation workshop “Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date. New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th–11th Centuries BCE, which took place in November 2014 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. It offers up-to-date research on the Sea Peoples phenomenon during the so called “crisis years” at the end of the Bronze Age. This period encompasses dramatic changes in the political and cultural landscape of mainly the...

Tell Abu al-Kharaz is situated in the central Transjordanian Jordan Valley. The author directed the excavations of this settlement from 1989 to 2012. The town flourished in the Early Bronze Age, and after an occupational lacuna of more than thousand years the site was re-occupied in the second half of the Middle Bronze Age and remained permanently occupied until the end of the Iron Age. The new volume is No. III in a series of three (The Early Bronze Age Vol. I, published by the Austrian...

he regional development of Cyprus and the on-going changes on the island are highly interesting topics, which were investigated in several studies in recent years by the SCIEM 2000 Cyprus project. This book by Louise Maguire represents a new departure from the traditional analysis of material culture; she has analysed pottery decoration by looking at traces of painting practices. This very meticulous and detailed study is a fresh approach which may help to disentangle some crucial technological...

Absolute dates for the Minoan Old- and New Palace Period are still under discussion. While the ‘traditional’ chronology favored a date for the Santorini eruption at the end of the chronological phase Late Minoan IA around 1500 BC based on archaeological evidence and the historical chronology of Egypt, adherents of the ‘high’ chronology placed the eruption in second half of the 17th century BC based on radiocarbon evidence. The present volume discusses for the first time critically all...

Die Insel Ägina mit ihrem gleichnamigen Hauptort war in der spätarchaischen und klassischen Periode ein wichtiges Zentrum in der zentralen Ägäis. Die Bedeutung und der Wohlstand Äginas resultierten aus der intensiven Handelstätigkeit seiner Flotte mit weit reichenden Verbindungen über den Saronischen Golf hinaus bis in das Schwarzmeergebiet, nach Nordafrika und Italien. Der vorliegende Band untersucht Keramik aus klassischen Kontexten im Gebiet des „Kolonna-Hügels“, der Akropolis der antiken...

This volume presents a group of Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1130 BCE; 18th–20th Egyptian Dynasties) ceramics in the southern Levant that can be linked to the Egyptian pottery tradition (imported and locally produced). It should be of interest to scholars dealing with the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean in general, and with the Egyptian impact in the southern Levant in particular. The volume is divided into four main parts: Part I provides the reader with a typology of the relevant...

In February 1839 in a part of the Etruscan necropolis of Vulci, which was then known as the Polledrara, a rich and well-preserved tomb, which once must have served members of the local elite as their burial place, happened to be discovered. The most striking feature was the presence of several Egyptian and Egyptianizing objects, which had left a deep mark on the sepulchre. The Isis-Tomb or Polledrara-Tomb, as the hypogeum was called, was refilled with earth soon after the finds had been...

Das Handbuch der Keramik des ägyptischen Mittleren Reiches ist eine umfassende typologische Studie ägyptischer Keramikgefäße, die im Mittleren Reich (Mitte der 11. bis Mitte der 13. Dynastie, ca. 2000-1700 v.Chr.) hergestellt und in Ägypten, Nubien und der Levante gefunden wurden. Das Handbuch setzt sich aus zwei Bänden zusammen: Band I, das „Corpus Volume“, welches in zwei Teilen publiziert wird, ist eine typologische Studie, die nach Keramikformen strukturiert ist. Band II, das „Regional...

Aegina has long been recognised as a major production centre of a variety of widely exported ceramic containers not only in the relatively recent past but also in Classical antiquity and especially during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. Moreover, the prehistoric ceramic industry based on Aegina has become an increasingly important phenomenon in recent scholarship dealing with the rise of complex societies in the Aegean world during 2nd millennium BC. Such persistence on pottery production on...

This volume is a study of the archaeology and history of the Jordan Valley of the Southern Levant (from Dan in the north till the Dead Sea in the south) during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1500 BCE). The study attempts to summarize a large body of relevant materials bringing together a variety of types of finds and approaches, to form a coherent picture on the role, and significance of this region during this period. Starting from a general regional overview (including an in-depth...

Ägypten und Anatolien ist eine Geschichte der Kontakte zwischen dem pharaonischen Ägypten und der hethitisch-luwischen Welt. Dargestellt wird der ägyptisch-anatolische Kulturkontakt zur gesamten Zeit der Herausbildung und Existenz einer hethitischen Großmacht im Vorderen Orient. Damit schließt diese Monographie eine große Lücke in der Erforschung der Beziehungen Ägyptens zu seinen Nachbarn. Erstmals wird hier der Kontakt zwischen zwei antiken Kulturen nicht nur umfassend dargestellt und...