Book contents
- Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
- British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity
- Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Technological Mobilities: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean – An Introduction
- 2 The Transmitting Sea: A Mediterranean Perspective
- 3 Changing Pottery Technology in the Later Neolithic in Macedonia, North Greece
- 4 Mobility and Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean Metal Production
- 5 Stonemasons and Craft Mobility in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
- 6 Towards an Understanding of the Origin of Late Bronze Age Greek Glass
- 7 Mobilities in the Neopalatial Southern Aegean: The Case of Minoanisation
- 8 The Archaeological Signatures of Mobility: A Technological Look at ‘Aegeanising’ Pottery from the Northern Levant at the End of the 2nd Millennium BC
- 9 Mycenaean and Mycenaeanising Pottery across the Mediterranean: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Technological Mobility, Transmission and Appropriation
- 10 Interpreting Bronze Age Trade and Migration
- 11 Commentary: States and Technological Mobility – A View from the West
- 12 Commentary: On Fluxes, Connections and their Archaeological Manifestations
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Interpreting Bronze Age Trade and Migration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2017
Book contents
- Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
- British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity
- Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Technological Mobilities: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean – An Introduction
- 2 The Transmitting Sea: A Mediterranean Perspective
- 3 Changing Pottery Technology in the Later Neolithic in Macedonia, North Greece
- 4 Mobility and Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean Metal Production
- 5 Stonemasons and Craft Mobility in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
- 6 Towards an Understanding of the Origin of Late Bronze Age Greek Glass
- 7 Mobilities in the Neopalatial Southern Aegean: The Case of Minoanisation
- 8 The Archaeological Signatures of Mobility: A Technological Look at ‘Aegeanising’ Pottery from the Northern Levant at the End of the 2nd Millennium BC
- 9 Mycenaean and Mycenaeanising Pottery across the Mediterranean: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Technological Mobility, Transmission and Appropriation
- 10 Interpreting Bronze Age Trade and Migration
- 11 Commentary: States and Technological Mobility – A View from the West
- 12 Commentary: On Fluxes, Connections and their Archaeological Manifestations
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Abstract
It is argued here that the new forms of mobility instantiated by the demand for metals set Bronze Age political economies apart from what had gone before. Transport by sea and by land was transformed by innovative technologies (the sail, the chariot), enabling long-distance mobility, especially when combined. These changes helped create a new interconnected ‘globalised’ world without historical precedent. In this chapter, it is suggested that flows of people and material were facilitated by certain social institutions, with a widely shared tradition of warrior chiefs and traders primarily responsible.
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