1st Edition

Travellers in Time Imagining Movement in the Ancient Aegean World

By Saro Wallace Copyright 2018
534 Pages
by Routledge

534 Pages
by Routledge

534 Pages
by Routledge

Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were affected by population movement. It critiques both traditional culture-history-grounded notions of movement in the region as straightforwardly transformative, and the processual, systemic models that have more recently replaced this view, arguing that newer scholarship too often pays limited... Read more

1 Imagining movement; 2 Movement as explanation: the heritage; 3 Movement, 'Anatolianising’ culture and Aegean social change c. 3500 – 2300 BC; 4 Crete and Cretans in the Mediterranean, eighteenth to sixthteenth centuries BC; 5 ‘Aegean’ expansion: new dynamics, new boundaries in the later LBA; 6 Myth and movement from c. 1200 BC; 7 Later Iron Age Mediterranean movement and ‘Greek colonisation’; 8 Conclusions: movement disassembled

Biography

Saro Wallace held full-time lectureships at the Universities of Bristol, Cardiff, Reading and Warsaw (2004-10). Her career has also included a number of prestigious research fellowships, including those of the Leverhulme Trust, the Alexander S. Humboldt Foundation, the W.F.Albright Institute, and the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University. She has been the recipient of numerous primary research grants including those of the British Academy, the Institute for Aegean Prehistory and the Society of Antiquaries. Since 2008 she has directed field research (survey and excavation) in the landscape around the Bronze to Iron Age site of Karfi, Crete. From 2017 she has been Senior Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester.