Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF MIGRATION AND OTHER RANGES OF INTERREGIONAL INTERACTIONS
- 2 SETTING THE SCENE: THE MYCENAEAN PALATIAL CULTURE AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD
- 3 THE TWELFTH-CENTURY-BCE AEGEAN: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND
- 4 PRECONDITIONS FOR MIGRATION
- 5 ALONG THE ROUTES
- 6 STRICTLY BUSINESS? THE SOUTHERN LEVANT AND THE AEGEAN IN THE THIRTEENTH TO THE EARLY TWELFTH CENTURY BCE
- 7 THE MATERIAL CULTURE CHANGE IN TWELFTH-CENTURY PHILISTIA
- 8 THE PHILISTINE SOCIETY AND THE SETTLEMENT PROCESS
- 9 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AEGEAN IMMIGRATION TO THE LEVANT
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - ALONG THE ROUTES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF MIGRATION AND OTHER RANGES OF INTERREGIONAL INTERACTIONS
- 2 SETTING THE SCENE: THE MYCENAEAN PALATIAL CULTURE AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD
- 3 THE TWELFTH-CENTURY-BCE AEGEAN: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND
- 4 PRECONDITIONS FOR MIGRATION
- 5 ALONG THE ROUTES
- 6 STRICTLY BUSINESS? THE SOUTHERN LEVANT AND THE AEGEAN IN THE THIRTEENTH TO THE EARLY TWELFTH CENTURY BCE
- 7 THE MATERIAL CULTURE CHANGE IN TWELFTH-CENTURY PHILISTIA
- 8 THE PHILISTINE SOCIETY AND THE SETTLEMENT PROCESS
- 9 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE AEGEAN IMMIGRATION TO THE LEVANT
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The route of migration must be traced and checked for its archaeological, historical and geographical plausibility. If it was an overland route, spatial-temporal distribution of the material culture should indicate the path and direction of large scale migrations.… The only terrestrial evidence of…sea movements, if they were hostile, might be a series of coastal predation and destructions along the route and at successful beachheads.
– Stager 1995: 332–4INVESTIGATING ROUTES AND NEW POPULATIONS
The collapse of the palatial powers in the Mycenaean heartland and the Hittite Empire in Anatolia was the perfect opportunity for the ambitious, aggressive aristocrats and their followers from other strata of the postpalatial society to engage in a variety of interregional interactions with areas outside the scope of the Aegean world. Raiding, trading, and settling – both peacefully and violently – along the land and sea routes between the Aegean and the Levant, they left behind them clear footprints in the form of Aegean-style material culture, as well as in the literary records of their Ugaritic and Egyptian adversaries.
Sites in Cyprus, Anatolia, and Syria can be used here as seismographs, recording in their strata interactions with the Aegean world that are manifest in the variability in material culture assemblages.
It was argued in Chapter 1 that everyday activities within the domestic zone are molded and organized by the habitus: a set of ideas, values, and perceptions held by members of society.
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