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Proceedings of an International Archaeological Symposium held at Samos. Soft cover, 29.4X21 cm, 264 pp., ill., tables, maps, drawings. Contains 22 papers by scholars from various parts of Europe, including Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. Cultural interconnections between Cyprus and the Aegean started already early in the 3rd millennium B.C., when the Cypriots adopted the know-how of tin bronze from the south-east and southern coasts of Anatolia. These contacts became closer during the second millennium B.C., when Cyprus was dominant in the Mediterranean as the most important supplier of copper and welcomed Greek colonists from Mycenaean Greece towards the end of the millennium. During the first millennium B.C. interconnections became even closer, not only in commerce, but also in culture, since the Aegean, particularly the eastern Aegean, constituted the gateway of communication with Anatolia and the Persian Empire. Furthermore the Aegean occupied a strategic position, as the rules of early navigation…
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Cyprus and the East Aegean: Intercultural Contacts from 3000 to 500 BC Proceedings Paperback - 2009
by Vassos Karageorghis (Editor); Ourania Kouka (Editor)
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- Title Cyprus and the East Aegean: Intercultural Contacts from 3000 to 500 BC Proceedings
- Author Vassos Karageorghis (Editor); Ourania Kouka (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 262
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher A.G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia
- Date 2009
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9789963560868 / 9963560865
- Library of Congress subjects Civilization, Aegean, Cyprus - Antiquities
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009493330
- Dewey Decimal Code 939.37
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Nicosia: The A.G. Leventis Foundation, 2009. Paperback. As New. 21x30 cm. In English. 262 p., b/w and colour ills., tables, maps, drawings. Contains 22 papers by scholars from various parts of Europe, including Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. Cultural interconnections between Cyprus and the Aegean started already early in the 3rd millennium B.C., when the Cypriots adopted the know-how of tin bronze from the south-east and southern coasts of Anatolia. These contacts became closer during the second millennium B.C., when Cyprus was dominant in the Mediterranean as the most important supplier of copper and welcomed Greek colonists from Mycenaean Greece towards the end of the millennium. During the first millennium B.C. interconnections became even closer, not only in commerce, but also in culture, since the Aegean, particularly the eastern Aegean, constituted the gateway of communication with Anatolia and the Persian Empire. Furthermore the Aegean occupied a strategic position, as the rules of early navigation…
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