Thalassocracies in bronze age eastern mediterranean trade: Making and breaking a myth

World Archaeology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 332-347

  Knapp, A Bernard ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; ECO-POLITICAL PROCESS; HISTORICAL STUDIES; TRADE PATTERN;

MEDITERRANEAN;

EID: 0027385771     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1993.9980212     Document Type: Article

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