The Emergence of Aegean Prehistory

Andrew Shapland (University of Oxford)

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English

Cambridge University Press
10 April 2025

European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Prehistoric archaeology

Series: Elements in The Aegean Bronze Age

This Element focusses on the emergence of Aegean Prehistory as a discipline, starting with the first recorded encounters with prehistoric monuments and artefacts and ending with the decipherment of Linear B in 1952. It broadens the history of Aegean Bronze Age archaeology as told in popular accounts as a series of excavations of great men, particularly Heinrich Schliemann at Troy and Mycenae and Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos. Though their work is of fundamental importance for the discipline, here it is placed within wider political, institutional and intellectual frameworks. This Element also provides an overview of the work of many other archaeologists across the Aegean and the regional and historical context in which they operated. It provides a brief but comprehensive history of the formative stages of the study of Aegean Prehistory.

By: Andrew Shapland (University of Oxford)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 284g
ISBN: 9781009670883
ISBN 10: 1009670883
Series: Elements in The Aegean Bronze Age
Pages: 98
Publication Date: 10 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Biographical framework; 3. Intellectual context; 4. Political and institutional history of archaeology in the Aegean; 5. History of archaeological research in the Aegean; 6. Broadening Aegean prehistory; References.