Inter-cultural communications and iconography in the Western Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age
By: Ralph Araque Gonzalez
Series: Freiburger archäologische Studien -- Band 9; Freiburger archäologische Studien -- 9.
Publisher: Verlag Marie Leidorf
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Rahden/ Westf
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9783896467973
Subjects: Antiquities
Description: The symbolic images of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age [c. 1300-525 B.C.] that were widespread in the central and western Mediterranean offer a broad base for the understanding of the inter-cultural communications and the alleged spread of ideas and knowledge throughout the area. This book comprises the first comprehensive, comparative analysis of iconographical records from Sardinia, Southwest Iberia, Corsica and Sicily within their archaeological context of the intense contacts that had emerged in the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age. Settlement archaeology, monument building, funeral rites and religious ritual as well as local economic approaches in these four regions, which were connected by a network of anchorages, are also examined and compared.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.