A. Bernard Knapp. Seafaring and seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean.
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https://doi.org/10.32028/jga.v4i.498Abstract
This well-priced short paperback (176 pages of text) has full references, an index, well-chosen and striking illustrations (the cover showing a Balearic scene) and several useful tables listing Ugaritic, Egyptian, Akkadian and Hittite text references of significance to the topic, as well as 5 maps, on which the lettering is somewhat too small for easy use. It will serve an informed public or student audience well as an expert guide to the known facts about how shipping and trade operated in the Bronze Age east Mediterranean, especially the Late Bronze Age (64 pages against 15 on the Early BA and 22 on the Middle BA).
References
Broodbank, C., 2014. The Making of the Middle Sea: a History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World. London: Thames and Hudson.
Knapp, A. B., and S. Demesticha, 2017. Mediterranean Connections: Maritime Transport Containers and Seaborne Trade in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages. London/New York: Routledge.
Hitchcock, L., and A. M. Maeir, 2014. Yo-ho, yo-ho, a seren’s life for me! World Archaeology 46: 624–40.
Monroe, C., 2009. Scales of Fate: Trade, Tradition and Transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.
Wachsmann, S., 1998. Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant. College Station, Texas: Texas AandM University Press.
Wedde, M., 2000. Towards a Hermeneutics of Aegean Bronze Age Ship Imagery. Bibliopolis: Mannheim und Möhnsee.
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