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Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II


 
Michael L. Galaty and William A. Parkinson

 

This revised and expanded edition of the classic 1999 edited book includes all the chapters from the original volume plus a new, updated, introduction and several new chapters. The current book is an up-to-date review of research into Mycenaean palatial systems with chapters by archaeologists and Linear B specialists that will be useful to scholars, instructors, and advanced students.

This book aims to define more accurately the term “palace” in light of both recent archaeological research in the Aegean and current anthropological thinking on the structure and origin of early states. Regional centers do not exist as independent entities. They articulate with more extensive sociopolitical systems. The concept of palace needs to be incorporated into enhanced models of Mycenaean state organization, ones that more completely integrate primary centers with networks of regional settlement and economy.
 

ISBN: 978-1-931745-42-0 (c), 978-1-931745-43-7 (p)

Publication Date: 2007

Series: Monograph 60

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Price: US $14.98 cloth, $9.98 paper

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