Precolonial African polities have emerged in recent years as fertile ground for the
comparative archaeological study of social complexity and the state. For much of the …

A. Bernard Knapp presents a new island archaeology and island history of Bronze Age and
early Iron Age Cyprus, set in its Mediterranean context. Drawing out tensions between …

The value of strontium isotope analysis in identifying immigrants at numerous
archaeological sites and regional areas has been demonstrated by several researchers …

Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a
new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of …

As a successful technique for identifying residential mobility in other areas, this study
investigates the feasibility of using 87Sr/86Sr analysis to track the movements of the ancient …

Building on recent criticisms of Romanization, this contribution formulates a systematic
critique of the concept of Egyptianization and suggests a different theoretical approach to …

The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized
and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus …

Through the concept of entanglement, archaeological indications of cultural identity and
skeletal evidence of biological and geographic interaction are used to explore the …

The effects of Egyptian imperial expansion into Nubia during the New Kingdom Period
(1,550–1,069 BC) have been debated. Here, the impacts of the Egyptian Empire are …

As circumstances of conquest change, leaders of empires must adapt their colonial
strategies in order to be successful. One example of such modification in approach is the …