Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe

Francesco Iacono is a Marie Slodowska-Curie fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK.

• List of TablesList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1: An Archaeology of Interaction and Mobility1.1. A Changing Sea: Social Differentiation and the Mediterranean through the Lens of Later Globalisation1.2. What is Interaction in Archaeology?1.3. A Radical Paradigm?1.4. Spatiality1.5. Mediterranean Bronze Age Modes of InteractionChapter 2: The Southern Adriatic: Social Geography, Previous Studies and Prelude to Late Bronze Age Interaction2.1. The Southern Adriatic: Sea, Lands and Means of Interaction2.2. Approaches to Adriatic connectivity2.3. The Prelude to Late Bronze Age InteractionChapter 3: Early Encounters (1750-1300 BC)3.1. The Individual Community during the Middle Bronze Age3.2. The Protoapennine and Apennine Networks3.3. The Wider Mediterranean Context during the Middle Bronze Age3.4. The Middle Bronze Age Adriatic Society and its Connections: Modes of Production and of InteractionChapter 4: From Direct Contact to Brownian Motion: The Southern Adriatic during the Recent Bronze Age (1300-1100 BC)4.1. The Individual Community during the Recent Bronze Age4.2. The Small Scale Network during the Recent Bronze Age4.3. The Wider Mediterranean Context during the Recent Bronze Age4.4. The Southern Adriatic during the Recent Bronze Age: Modes of Production and InteractionChapter 5: Old Connections and New Equilibria at the End of the Southern Adriatic Bronze Age (1100-1000 BC)5.1. The Individual Community during the Final Bronze Age5.2. The Small Scale Network during the Final Bronze Age5.3. The Wider Mediterranean Context during the Final Bronze Age5.4. The Final Bronze Age in the Southern Adriatic: Modes of Production and of InteractionChapter 6: The Southern Adriatic and the Social Logic of Interaction6.1. The Southern Adriatic Societies and the Mediterranean in the Longue Durée6.2. E pluribus unum, ex uno plures?6.3. The Social Logic of Interaction: Then and NowReferences

Iacono’s informative book offers a fresh picture of the Apulian region over 700 years of the Bronze Age … the book serves as a valuable account of the key sites and, as inferred, the society of the region.