The Connected Iron Age: Interregional Networks in the Eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE

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An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected.   The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Surveying the region from Greece to Iraq, one finds a host of cultures and political formations, all distinct, yet all visibly connected in meaningful ways. These include the early polities of Geometric period Greece, the Phrygian kingdom of central Anatolia, the Syro-Anatolian city-states, the seafaring Phoenicians and the biblical Israelites of the southern Levant, Egypt’s Twenty-first through Twenty-fifth Dynasties, the Urartian kingdom of the eastern Anatolian highlands, and the expansionary Neo-Assyrian Empire of northern Mesopotamia. This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and political significance of how interregional networks operated within and between Mediterranean cultures during that era.   Contents List of Figures Preface Chapter 1. Interregional Interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Iron Age | James F. Osborne and Jonathan M. Hall Chapter 2. Phoenicians and the Iron Age Mediterranean: A Response to Phoenicoskepticism | Carolina López-Ruiz Chapter 3. Mediterranean Interconnections beyond the City: Rural Consumption and Trade in Archaic Cyprus | Catherine Kearns Chapter 4. Connectivity, Style, and Decorated Metal Bowls in the Iron Age Mediterranean | Marian H. Feldman Chapter 5. Close Encounters of the Lasting Kind: Greeks, Phoenicians, and Others in the Iron Age Mediterranean | Sarah P. Morris Chapter 6. The Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the Early First Millennium BCE: Greeks, Phoenicians, Phrygians, and Lydians | Susan Sherratt Chapter 7. Greeks, Phoenicians, Phrygians, Trojans, and Other Creatures in the Aegean: Connections, Interactions, Misconceptions | John K. Papadopoulos Chapter 8. Anatolia, the Aegean, and the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Material Connections | Ann C. Gunter Chapter 9. Egypt and the Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age | Brian Muhs Chapter 10. Globalizing the Mediterranean’s Iron Age | Tamar Hodos Chapter 11. Six Provocations in Search of a Pretext | Michael Dietler Contributors Index