Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean

This volume presents a detailed study of the most recent investigations into the origins of Greek civilization, including contributions by many of the world's most eminent scholars on Aegean prehistory. For the first time evidence and theories from the fields of archaeology, linguistics, and history are correlated and examined in detail in an attempt to answer these and other perplexing questions about the Aegean Bronze Age: Where did the Greeks come from? What role did Minoan Crete play? Did newly identified races from the East, "Luwians" for example, precede the Greeks? What were the long-term effects of the great eruption at Thera? Was there a "Dorian" invasion? Did the "Sea Peoples" who attacked Egypt c. 1200 BC come from the Aegean? What is the factual background and history of the Iliad? the Odyssey? the Trojan War itself?

Based upon the proceedings of the International Colloquium held at Sheffield University in 1970, this volume will serve as an ideal orientation for specialists in Classical Studies and prehistory, as well as for the many non-specialists interested in the origins of Classical Greek, Roman, and early European civilization. It includes significant articles by leading scholars from Eastern Europe reporting new ideas and discoveries never before published outside their own countries.

Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean is considered by preliminary reviewers to be perhaps the most important of all recent books on protohistoric Greece.

Contributors: A. Bartonek, J. Bouzek, H. G. Buchholz, J. L. Caskey, Ph. H. J. H. ten Cate, J. N. Coldstream, N. E. Collinge, J. M. Cook, R. A. Crossland, J. D. Evans, D. H. French, M. Garaãnin, V. I. Georgiev, M. Gerard-Rousseau, M. Gimbutas, L. H. Gindin, L. Godart, N. G. F. Hammond, M. S. F. Hood, R. J. Howell, S. Marinates, A. Nibbi, F. Oren, I. Pudi, A. C. Renfrew, H. B. Resen, A. M. Snodgrass, C. Sourvinou, I. Tegyey, F. J. Tritsch, A. Vraciu, P. M. Warren.