Description
Until fairly recently, archaeological research has been directed primarily toward the centers of societies rather than their perimeters. Yet frontiers and borders, precisely because they are peripheral, promote interaction between people of different polities and cultures, with a wide range of potential outcomes. Much work has begun to redress this disparity of focus.
Drawing on contemporary and ethnographic accounts, historical data and archaeological evidence, this book covers more than 30 years of research on boundaries, borders and frontiers, beginning with The Northern Mycenaean Border in Thessaly in 1983. The author discusses various theoretical and methodological issues concerning peripheries as they apply to the archaeological record. Political, economic, social and cultural processes in border and frontier zones are described in detail. Three case study societies are examined--China, Rome and Mycenaean Greece.
About the Author
The late Bryan Feuer was a lecturer in humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills. His research interests included the Aegean Bronze Age, archaeological borders, regional analysis, cultural contact and interaction and ceramic analysis. He did archaeological fieldwork in Greece, Italy and the U.S and lived in Manhattan Beach, California.
Book Information
ISBN 9780786473434
Author Bryan Feuer
Format Paperback
Page Count 164
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 240g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm
