Thalassocracies in Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Trade: Making and Breaking a Myth

Author(s): A. Bernard Knapp

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World Archaeology, Vol. 24, No. 3, Ancient Trade: New Perspectives (Feb., 1993), pp.

332-347

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• Issue Table of Contents
  • World Archaeology, Vol. 24, No. 3, Ancient Trade: New Perspectives (Feb., 1993), pp. 315-490
    • Volume Information [pp.486-487]
    • Front Matter
    • Ulysses without Sails: Trade, Distance, Knowledge and Power in the Early Cyclades [pp.315-331]
    • Thalassocracies in Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Trade: Making and Breaking a Myth [pp.332-347]
    • Direct Evidence for Organic Cargoes in the Late Bronze Age [pp.348-360]
    • The Growth of the Mediterranean Economy in the Early First Millennium BC [pp.361-378]
    • Patterns of Trade in Third-Millennium BC Mesopotamia and Iran [pp.379-402]
    • Trade and Power in the Fifth and Fourth Millennia BC: New Evidence from Northern Mesopotamia [pp.403-422]
    • Rethinking Some Aspects of Trade in the Arabian Gulf [pp.423-440]
    • Trade or Diplomacy? Assyria and Dilmun in the Eighteenth Century BC [pp.441-448]
    • Local versus Non-Local Obsidian Exchange at Tula and Its Implications for Post-Formative Mesoamerica [pp.449-466]
    • Ethnoarchaeology, Museum Collections and Prehistoric Exchange: Obsidian-Tipped Artifacts from the Admiralty Islands [pp.467-481]
    • Books Received from Publishers as at 31 December 1992 [pp.484-485]
    • Back Matter [pp.482-490]