Mediterranean Economies

The research group ›Mediterranean Economies‹ is combining archaeological case studies with economic theory. The development of the forces of production constitutes a decisive factor in the history of human societies and thus also determines contacts between societies to a large extend. Therefore, research into the modes of production, property as well as exchange relationships between different pre- and early-state societies around the Mediterranean in the 2^nd and early 1^st millennia BCE form the central subject of the different research programs.

Head
Reinhard Jung

Team
Eleftheria Kardamaki
Karin Kopetzky
Annalisa Rumolo
Michaela Zavadil

The Collapse of Bronze Age Societies in the Eastern Mediterranean

War and peace between Mycenaean Greece and Bronze Age Italy

Studies on the new Mycenaean palace of Ayios Vasileios in Laconia

Pheneos is one of the few sites in Arcadia, of which settlement activity during the Middle Bronze Age is known from excavations. On the basis of the pottery found during these excavations, it is possible to reconstruct the changes in the connectivity of the inhabitants of this remote settlement with the outside world in the period from about 2000–1600 BC.

Middle Bronze Age pottery from the acropolis of Pheneos/Corinthia

Tiryns is one of the famous citadels of the Mycenaean era in the Peloponnese. Its history during the palatial period in the 13th and 12th century BC is well-known, but its development during the Middle Bronze Age and early Late Bronze Age is less understood. The project is dedicated to a Middle and Late Bronze Age pottery complex found during excavations at the Upper Citadel.

Middle Helladic and Mycenaean pottery from Tiryns