Download or read book Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age written by Clay Mathers and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together for the first time a detailed, comparative view of Bronze Age communities in key areas of the Mediterranean basin. Each of the eleven regional studies contains consideration of technology, economic competition, regional settlement patterns, subsistence, social and political organisation, defence and ritual. Contributors include: C Mathers (Contrasting patterns of change in the south-east Iberian Bronze Age); R J Harrison (The Bronze Age in northern and northeastern Spain); J Gasco (Development and decline in the Bronze Age of southern France); L Barfield (The Bronze Age of northern Italy); G Barker & S Stoddart (The Bronze Age of central Italy); C Malone, S Stoddart & R Whitehouse (The Bronze Age of southern Italy, Sicily and Malta); P Halstead (Regional paths to complexity in prehistoric Greece); S W Manning (Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades); A Bernard Knapp (Bronze Age Cyprus); S E Falconer (Urbanism and ruralism in the southern Levant); A Sherratt (Perspectives on the Bronze Age).