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Ogni storia famigliare è in qualche misura immaginaria perché la memoria - i romanzieri lo sanno bene - è capricciosa, inaffidabile: ama le variazioni sul tema. Nel caso di questo romanzo, a dare forma all'universo narrativo è lo sguardo del più piccolo dei componenti di una famiglia vitale e caotica, che osserva con sagacia e curiosità le vite spesso incomprensibili degli adulti, le dinamiche miste...

This book examines how exotic materials were exchanged and used across the Mediterranean from the Neolithic era to the Iron Age, focusing on the Bronze Age. A variety of materials and interpretative approaches are presented through several case studies. These emphasise how the value of exotic materials depended on the context in which they were consumed. The book firmly departs from assumptions of fixed categories such as prestige items or cor...

This concise dictionary is intended to be helpful in the reading of archaeological books and publications, and in the writing of papers and articles in both English and Italian.

From antiquity onwards people have opted to live near rivers and major watercourses. This volume explores rivers as facilitators of movement through landscapes, and it investigates the reasons for living near a river, as well as the role of the river in the human landscape.

Aegean-type pottery has been found in the West Mediterranean for more than a century and several publications have tried to explain the phenomenon from an Aegeancentric point of view. The search for metals, the arrival of Mycenaean people after the LH III B destructions in Mainland Greece and the hypothesis that Mycenaeans had to sail westwards because of the dominance of the Minoan thalassocracy on the eastern routes are only some of the prop...