New English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 1002 p., color and b/w ills. Nostoi. Indigenous culture, migration and integration in the Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age is presenting one comprehensive volume with papers discussing various aspects of the intercultural contact between West Anatolia and the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. The conference proceedings are focusing on the various Anatolian and Aegean cross-cultural "interfaces", the archaeological testimonies of the "indigenous" population, the impact of the Hittite, Mycenaean and Ionian migration movements, on the pre-existing population, as well as inter-cultural and cross-cultural mingling of the Aegean and Anatolia or vice versa. Contents: Introduction PART 1: GENERAL Hawkins, J. David / The Political Geography of Arzawa (Western Anatolia) Mountjoy, Penelope A. / The East Aegean-West Anatolian Interface in the 12th Century BC: Some Aspects Arising from the Mycenaean Pottery Pavúk, Peter / Between the Aegeans and the Hittites: Western Anatolia in the 2nd Millennium BC Becks, Ralf / Settlement Patterns and Socio-Political Landscape of Western Anatolian in the Middle and Late Bronze Age: A Geoarchaeological View Alparslan, Metin / The History of the Arzawan State during the Hittite Period PART 2: MIGRATION Bachvarova, Mary R. / Migrations in Anatolian Narrative Traditions Chabot Aslan, Carolyn - Pavol Hnila / Migration and Integration at Troy from the End of the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age Kopanias, Konstantinos / The Mushki/Phrygian Problem from the Near Eastern Point of View Fragkopoulou, Florentia / Ionian Migration: Certainties and Underlying Uncertainties Sweeney, Naoíse Mac / Violence and the Ionian Migration: Representation and Reality Part 3A: FIELDWORK: AEGEAN Seroglou, Fani K. - Dimitris Sfakianakis / Bridging North and South: The Dodecanese Islands and the "Eastern Insular Arc" between Crete and Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age Eerbeek, Jacob / The 'Mycenaeans' in the Southeast Aegean Revisited: An Inter-Regional Comparison Vitale, Salvatore - Arianna Trecarichi / The Koan Tradition during the Mycenaean Age: A Contextual and Functional Analysis of Local Ceramics from the "Serraglio", Eleona, and Langada Vlachopoulos, Andreas - Mercourios Georgiadis / The Cyclades and the Dodecanese during the Post-Palatial Period: Heterogeneous Developments of a Homogeneous Culture Earle, Jason W. / Mycenaeanization on Melos: A View from the Phylakopi Pantries Girella, Luca - Peter Pavúk / Minoanisation, Acculturation, Hybridisation: The Evidence of the Minoan Presence in the North East Aegean between the Middle and Late Bronze Age Dale, Alexander / Greek Ethnics in - and the Name of Mytilene Coluccia, Luigi / Hephaestia: New Data on the Mycenaean Presence on Lemnos during the Late Bronze Age Danile, Laura / The Indigenous Culture of Hephaestia (Lemnos) at the beginning of the Iron Age: Ancient Sources, Mythical Tradition, and Archaeological Data PART 3B: FIELDWORK: ANATOLIA Yener, K. Aslihan / A Monumental Middle Bronze Age Apsidal Building at Alalakh Yagci, Remzi / Kizzuwatna in the Bronze Age and in Later Periods: Continuity and/or Discontinuity? Unlu, Elif / Late Bronze - Early Iron Age Painted Pottery from the Northeast Mediterranean Settlements Hurmuzlu, Bilge - Paul Iversen / Notes on Cultural Interaction in Northwest Pisidia in the Iron Age Momigliano, Nicoletta - Belgin Aksoy / Lycia Before Lycians: The Elusive Second Millennium BC in Southwest Turkey and the Caltilar Archaeological Project Kaiser, Ivonne - Julien Zurbach / Late Bronze Age Miletus: The Anatolian Face Krumme, Michael / Geometric Miletus Sahoglu
