TY - BOOK ID - 7264444 TI - Mediterranean connections : maritime transport containers and seaborne trade in the Bronze and Iron ages AU - Knapp, Arthur Bernard AU - Demesticha, Stella AU - Martin, Robert AU - Pratt, Catherine E. PY - 2016 SN - 9781629583549 9781315537009 9781134992836 1629583545 9781134992768 9780367890315 PB - London: Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Shipping KW - Containers KW - Amphoras KW - Storage jars KW - Bronze age KW - Iron age KW - History KW - Mediterranean region KW - Mediterranean Region KW - Commerce KW - History. KW - Antiquities KW - History, Nava KW - Amphoras. KW - Antiquities. KW - Bronze age. KW - Commerce. KW - Containers. KW - Iron age. KW - Shipping. KW - Storage jars. KW - To 1500. KW - Mediterranean Region. KW - History, Naval. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. KW - Shipping - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 KW - Containers - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 KW - Amphoras - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 KW - Storage jars - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 KW - Bronze age - Mediterranean Region KW - Iron age - Mediterranean Region KW - Mediterranean region - Commerce - History KW - Mediterranean Region - Antiquities KW - Mediterranean Region - History, Nava KW - Mediterranean Region - History - To 476 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7264444 AB - "This volume focuses on the origin and development of the maritime transport container from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200-700 BC). This category of objects gives us a better understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the roles 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 as central to understanding 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 2500 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"--Provided by publisher ER -