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The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

List of Abbreviations ix

Introduction: the “fantastic Cauldron” of the Mediterranean Koine xi

1 Seafaring in the Mesolithic Mediterranean 1

2 The Neolithic Revolution/Transition 13

3 The Neolithic Diaspora 35

4 Urbanization in Mesopotamia 60

5 The Third Millennium 83

6 The Middle Bronze Age (2000–1550 BC): Recoveries 126

7 Late Bronze Age Maritime Networks 162

8 The Late Bronze Age Collapse and its Aftermath 193

9 Recovery and Expansion (1050–850 BC) 220

Bibliography 256

Index 349

About the Author

Nancy H. Demand is Professor Emerita in the Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Her books include Thebes in the Fifth Century (1982); Urban Relocation in Archaic and Classical Greece: Flight and Consolidation (1990); Birth, Death and Motherhood in Classical Greece (1994); and A History of Ancient Greece (1996).

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While the target audience may be that of the non-expertor undergraduate student, scholars, too, will find much in thisbook. Demand succeeds in making her Mediterranean truly afantastic cauldron. (Revue des EtudesAnciennes, 1 December 2012) For these reasons, and despite its shortcomings, the bookis worth reading and the author should be praised for bringingtogether a vast body of complex data with knowledge anderudition. (The Anglo-Hellenic Review, 1October 2012)"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates andabove. ( Choice, 1 September 2012)

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