Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece

Anthony Snodgrass is Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.

• Part I: A Credo; 1. Archaeology; 2. Greek Archaeology and Greek History; 3. The New Archaeology and the Classical Archaeologist; 4. A Paradigm Shift in Classical Archaeology?; 5. Separate Tables? A story of two traditions within one discipline; Part II: The Early Iron Age of Greece; 6. Metalwork as Evidence for Immigration in the Late Bronze Age; 7. The Coming of the Iron Age in Greece: Europe's Earliest Bronze/Iron Transition; 8. Euboeans in Macedonia: A New Precedent for Westward Expansion; 9. The Rejection of Mycenaean Culture and the Oriental Connection; 10. An Historical Homeric society?; Part III: The Early Polis at Home and Abroad; 11. Archaeology and the Rise of the Greek state; 12. Heavy Freight in Archaic Greece; 13. Interaction by Design: the Greek city-state; 14. The Economics of Dedication at Greek Sanctuaries; 15. Archaeology and the Study of the Greek City; 16. The Nature and Standing of the Western colonies; Part IV: The Early Polis at War; 17. The Hoplite Reform and History; 18. The Historical Significance of Fortification in Archaic Greece; 19. The 'Hoplite Reform' Revisited; Part V: Early Greek Art; 20. Poet and Painter in Eighth-Century Greece; 21. Narration and Allusion in Archaic Greek Art; 22. The Uses of Writing on Early Greek Painted Pottery; 23. Pausanias and the Chest of Kypselos; Part VI: Archaeological Survey; 24. Survey Archaeology and the Rural Landscape of the Greek City; 25. Rural Burial in the World of Cities.

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