Mediterranean Connections Maritime Transport Containers And Seaborne Trade In The Bronze And Early Iron Ages 3d Photorealistic Rendering 1st Edition A Bernard Knapp by A. Bernard Knapp, Stella Demesticha 9781629583549, 1629583545 instant download after payment.

Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200–700 BC). Analysis of this category of objects broadens our understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. These containers have often been the subject of specific and detailed pottery studies, but have seldom been examined in the context of connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.

This broad study:

• considers the likely origins of these types of vessels;
• traces their development and spread throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean as archetypal organic bulk cargo containers;
• discusses the wider impact on Mediterranean connections, transport and trade over a period of 2,500 years covering the Bronze and early Iron Ages.

Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.