The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World

Broodbank, Cyprian

ISBN 10: 0500292086 / ISBN 13: 9780500292082

Published by THAMES HUDSON, 2015

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Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

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• Title: The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World
• Publisher: THAMES HUDSON
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500292086
• ISBN 13: 9780500292082
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very good

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Making of the Middle Sea

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A Look Inside: The Making of the Middle Sea [Click Images to Enlarge]

The rock of Gibraltar as it looks today and as it might have appeared during phases of lower sea level to the Neanderthals occupying large caverns along its base. Courtesy: Gibraltar Museum 2006.

Experimental travel in a hypothetical reed boat. Photograph by Catherine Perles. Courtesy: Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Traditions.

The loose collection of roundhouses constituting the early Cypriot village of Shillourokambos, set in this reconstruction within a savannah-like landscape with semi-free-ranging yet carefully managed herds. Courtesy: Simple Past/ Marc Azéma.

A reconstruction of the Iceman on the move, including cold-weather grass cape, knapsack, bow and other equipment. Courtesy: Drazen Tomic (after Tracy Wellman). Early rock engraving of cattle being milked at Tiksatin, Libyan Sahara. Courtesy: David Mattingly An 18th-century AD engraving, easily recognizable as a record of an early 1st- millennium BC Sardinian bronze figurine, from the Caylus collection. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.