A Companion to Archaeology features essays from 27 of the world’s leading authorities on different types of archaeology that aim to define the field and describe what it means to be an archaeologist.
* Shows that contemporary archaeology is an astonishingly broad activity, with many contrasting specializations and ways of approaching the material record of past societies.
* Includes essays by experts in reading the past through art, linguistics, or the built environment, and by professionals who present the past through heritage management and museums.
* Introduces the reader to a range of archaeologists: those who devote themselves to the philosophy of archaeology, those who see archaeology as politics or anthropology, and those who contend that the essence of the discipline is a hard science.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors xii
Preface xx
List of Abbreviations xxiii
Maps xxiv
Part I Introduction 1
1 The Historiography of Archaic Greece 3
John K. Davies
2 The Mediterranean World in the Early Iron Age 22
Carol G. Thomas
Part II Histories 41
3 The Early Iron Age 43
Catherine Morgan
4 The Eighth-century Revolution 64
Ian Morris
5 The World of Homer and Hesiod 81
Christoph Ulf
6 The Tyrants 100
Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp
7 Sparta 117
Massimo Nafissi
8 Athens 138
Michael Stahl and Uwe Walter
9 Greeks and Persians 162
Josef Wiesehöfer
Part III Regions 187
10 Attica: A View from the Sea 189
Sanne Houby-Nielsen
11 The Aegean 212
Alexander Mazarakis Ainian and Iphigenia Leventi
12 Laconia and Messenia 239
Nigel Kennell and Nino Luraghi
13 The Peloponnese 255
Thomas Heine Nielsen and James Roy
14 Crete 273
James Whitley
15 Northern Greece 294
Zosia Halina Archibald
16 The Western Mediterranean 314
Carla M. Antonaccio
17 The Black Sea 330
Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
Part IV Themes 347
18 Cities 349
Jan Paul Crielaard
19 Foundations 373
Irad Malkin
20 States 395
Hans-Joachim Gehrke
21 Charismatic Leaders 411
Robert W. Wallace
22 Sanctuaries and Festivals 427
François de Polignac
23 The Economy 444
Hans van Wees
24 Class 468
Peter W. Rose
25 Gender 483
Lin Foxhall
26 The Culture of the Symposion 508
Oswyn Murray
27 The Culture of Competition 524
Nick Fisher
28 Literacy 542
John-Paul Wilson
29 Intellectual Achievements 564
Kurt A. Raaflaub
30 War and International Relations 585
Henk Singor
31 Ethnicity and Cultural Exchange 604
Jonathan M. Hall
Bibliography 618
Indices 713
About the author
John Bintliff is Professor of Classical and Mediterranean
Archaeology at Leiden University.
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