Ethnicity in Mediterranean protohistory
By: Wim M.J. van Binsbergen, Fred C. Woudhuizen
Contributors: Woudhuizen, Fred
Series: BAR international series -- 2256; BAR international series -- 2256.
Publisher: Archaeopress; British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd; British Archaeological Reports
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9781407308234
Subjects: Ethnicity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-478) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Ethnicity in Mediterranean proto-history: explorations in theory and methodology: with extensive discussions of the Homeric catalogue of ships, the Biblical Table of Nations, and the Sea Peoples of the late Bronze Age, against the background of long-range comparative framework / by Wim M.J. van Binsbergen Interdisciplinary co-ordinates, methodological and theoretical orientation, acknowledgements, and summary for parts I and III; title: Ethnicity within the scope of social science research; title: Towards a theory of ethnicity specifically for historians of late Bronze Age Mediterranean; title: Case study I: the Homeric Achaean catalogue of ships; title: Case study II: the Biblical Table of Nations (Genesis 10); title: pt. 2. The ethnicity of the sea peoples: an historical, archaeological and linguistic study / by Fred Woudhuizen.  Introduction to part II; title: Defining ethnicity; title: Ethnicity and protohistory; title: Historical setting; title: An historigraphic outline; title: Contemporary sources: Egyptian (a), Cypro-Minoan, Ugaritic, Egyptian (b); title: Lukka and the Lukka lands; title: Ethnogenesis of the Greeks; title: The rise and fall of the Mycenaean Greeks; title: From Danaoi to Dan; title: Etruscan origins; title: The Aeneas' saga: Etruscan origins in parvo; title: Philistines and Pelasgians; title: Teukroi, Akamas, and Trojan grey ware; title: The central Mediterranean contribution; title: Concluding remarks for part 2; title: pt. 2. Appendix I: On the decipherment of cretan Hieroglyphic; title: pt. 2. Appendix II: On the position of the Etruscan language; title: pt. 2. Appendix III: A Luwian trifunctional divine triad recorded for Crete; title: pt. 2. Appendix IV: Pelasgian Demeter and Zeus; title: Addenda to pt. 2; title: pt. 3. The ethnicity of the sea peoples: a second opinion / by Wim M.J. Van Binsbergen. An alternative interpretation of the sea peoples data: relatively peripheral and archaic segmentary groups seeking to counter, by a combined eastbound and westbound movement, encroachment by the states of Hatti and Egypt; title: pt. 4. The ethnicity of the sea peoples: towards a synthesis, and in anticipation of criticism / by Wim Van Binsbergen & Fred C. Woudhuizen; title: Reference material: cumulative bibliography and indexes.