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Societies and economics in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age

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BrianMuhs. The ancient Egyptian economy 3000–30 BCE. 2016. New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-11336-7 $99.99.

Emily S.K.Anderson. Seals, craft and community in Bronze Age Crete. 2016. New York: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-13119-4 $110.

Sarah C.Murray. The collapse of the Mycenaean economy. Imports, trade, and institutions 1300–700 BCE. 2017. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-107-18637-8 £90.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2018

David A. Warburton*
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University, People's Republic of China (Email: warburton@zedat.fu-berlin.de)

Extract

These volumes treat economic and social themes of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean; all touch on Egypt, but the volume on Egypt itself limps way behind in both quality and scope. Taking these three volumes together, one has the impression that the unresolved problems of the last five decades of turmoil in archaeological thought have left not merely unhealed scars, but also badly set broken bones.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2018 

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References

Warburton, D. 2017. Book review: The ancient Egyptian economy 3000–30 BCE. American Journal of Archaeology 121. https://doi.org/10.3764/ajaonline1213.warburtonGoogle Scholar