This volume gathers fourteen papers on the Mycenaean palace states of the late Bronze Age. Coverage ranges across Mycene, Pylos, Knossos and the Near East, with topics including administration, agriculture, ceramic production and Linear B.
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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: Centralization and Its Limits in the Mycenaean Palatial System
Chapter III: Agency and Bureaucracy: Thoughts on the Nature and Extent of Administration in Bronze Age Pylos
Chapter IV: Mycenaean Wheat, Flax and Sheep: Palatial Intervention in Farming and its Implications for Rural Society
Chapter V: Reading Between the Tablets: Assessing Mycenaean Palatial Involvement in Ceramic Production and Consumption
Chapter VI: Overseen or Overlooked? Ceramic Production in a Mycenaean Palatial System
Chapter VII: Centre and Periphery: Some Observations on the Administration of the Kingdom of Knossos
Chapter VIII: The Evolution of Administration at Pylos
Chapter IX: Some Thoughts on the Identification of the “Collectors” in the Linear B Tablets
Chapter X: Les “Collecteurs”: Leur Distribution Spatiale Et Temporelle
Editorial Note
Chapter XI: Some Thoughts On TA-RA-SI-JA
Chapter XII: System and Style in Three Near Eastern Bureaucracies
Chapter XIII: Economic Control, Power and Prestige in the Mycenaean World: The Archaeological Evidence
Chapter XIV: Potemkin Palaces and Route-Based Economies
References
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This volume gathers fourteen papers on the Mycenaean palace states of the late Bronze Age. Coverage ranges across Mycene, Pylos, Knossos and the Near East, with topics including administration, agriculture, ceramic production and Linear B.
Table of contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: Centralization and Its Limits in the Mycenaean Palatial System
Chapter III: Agency and Bureaucracy: Thoughts on the Nature and Extent of Administration in Bronze Age Pylos
Chapter IV: Mycenaean Wheat, Flax and Sheep: Palatial Intervention in Farming and its Implications for Rural Society
Chapter V: Reading Between the Tablets: Assessing Mycenaean Palatial Involvement in Ceramic Production and Consumption
Chapter VI: Overseen or Overlooked? Ceramic Production in a Mycenaean Palatial System
Chapter VII: Centre and Periphery: Some Observations on the Administration of the Kingdom of Knossos
Chapter VIII: The Evolution of Administration at Pylos
Chapter IX: Some Thoughts on the Identification of the “Collectors” in the Linear B Tablets
Chapter X: Les “Collecteurs”: Leur Distribution Spatiale Et Temporelle
Editorial Note
Chapter XI: Some Thoughts On TA-RA-SI-JA
Chapter XII: System and Style in Three Near Eastern Bureaucracies
Chapter XIII: Economic Control, Power and Prestige in the Mycenaean World: The Archaeological Evidence
Chapter XIV: Potemkin Palaces and Route-Based Economies
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