Interweaving Worlds: Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to the 1st Millennia BC

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Interweaving Worlds: Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to the 1st Millennia BC

Author(s): Toby C. Wilkinson (Editor), Susan Sherratt (Editor), John Bennet (Editor)

  • Publisher: Oxbow Books
  • Publication Date: 31 Dec. 2011
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 308 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1842179985
  • ISBN-13: 9781842179987

Book Description

How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct. This volume, emerging from a conference hosted in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt in Sheffield in April 2008 and in honour of his contributions to large-scale economic history, presents some diverse archaeological responses to this problem. These range from from “world-systems” through “ritual economies” to “textile rivalries” and address the challenge of documenting, explaining and understanding the progressively more interwoven worlds of prehistoric Eurasia.

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Toby C. Wilkinson is currently a TÜBITAK postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Archaeology, Istanbul University, Turkey (2013-2014). He studied anthropology and archaeology at the University of Oxford, University College London and the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. He has also worked for the Pitt Rivers Museum and Dept. of Continuing Education in Oxford and has held research scholarships from the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) and Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC).

Susan Sherratt is Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of the Aegean, Cyprus and the wider eastern Mediterranean, particularly in all aspects of trade and interaction within and beyond these regions and in exploring the ways in which the Homeric epics and the archaeological record can most usefully be combined.

John Bennet is Director of the British School at Athens and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. His main research interests include the archaeology of complex societies (particularly the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean); the archaeology and history of Crete; early writing and administrative systems (especially Linear B) and Ottoman Greece.

About the Author

Toby C. Wilkinson is currently a TÜBITAK postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Archaeology, Istanbul University, Turkey (2013-2014). He studied anthropology and archaeology at the University of Oxford, University College London and the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield. He has also worked for the Pitt Rivers Museum and Dept. of Continuing Education in Oxford and has held research scholarships from the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) and Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC).

Susan Sherratt is Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of the Aegean, Cyprus and the wider eastern Mediterranean, particularly in all aspects of trade and interaction within and beyond these regions and in exploring the ways in which the Homeric epics and the archaeological record can most usefully be combined.

John Bennet is Director of the British School at Athens (2015-22) and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, having previously taught in Madison, Wisconsin and Oxford. His research interests include the integration of archaeological and textual data, particularly in relation to the Aegean Bronze Age. He has co-edited five books on various archaeological topics.

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