A Pirate's Life for me: The Maritime Culture of the Sea Peoples

An anthropological approach to a culture extrapolates social structures, traditions, and general organizing principles of that culture from the careful observation of patterns of behaviour as described in case studies. In the absence of a living culture to record, archaeologists extrapolate this inf...

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Authors: Hitchcock, Louise ca. 20. Jh. (Author) ; Maʾir, Aharon 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2016]
In: Palestine exploration quarterly
Year: 2016, Volume: 148, Issue: 4, Pages: 245-264
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Shipping / Mediterranean (Motif) / Pirates / Philistines / Aegean civilization
IxTheo Classification:HH Archaeology
KBL Near East and North Africa
NBE Anthropology
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Summary:An anthropological approach to a culture extrapolates social structures, traditions, and general organizing principles of that culture from the careful observation of patterns of behaviour as described in case studies. In the absence of a living culture to record, archaeologists extrapolate this information from behaviour reconstructed from spatially determined patterns in the deposition of material remains and from patterns found in the general organizing principles of historically documented cultures, using arguments based on analogy. This contribution builds on our previous research on the "Sea Peoples" as a piratical culture in order to apply an anthropological approach to understanding the cultural identities of the various tribal groups involved in maritime activities at the end of the Bronze Age who are popularly known as the "Sea Peoples", and place this within the broader context of the current discussions on the transition between the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age in the Mediterranean.
ISSN:1743-1301
Contains:Enthalten in: Palestine exploration quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2016.1250358