Theory of Balkan Prehistory
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Comments, critics, suggestions
(In process)
Joseph Maran
Seaborne Contacts between the Aegean, the Balkans and the Central Mediterranean in the 3rd Millennium BC – The
Unfolding of the Mediterranean World. Published on 21 May. 2008. Aegeo-Balkan Prehistory. Retrieved on October 6,
2009 from
http://www.aegeobalkanprehistory.net/article.php?id_art=13 .
Published also in: I. Galanaki, H. Tomas, Y. Galanakis and R. Laffineur (eds.), Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas:
Prehistory across Borders. Proceedings of the International Conference Bronze and Early Iron Age Interconnections
and Contemporary Developments between the Aegean and the Regions of the Balkan Peninsula, Central and
Northern Europe, University of Zagreb, 11-14 April 2005, Aegaeum 27 (2007) 3-21.
From my manuscript:
"Recently, J. Maran had shared his latest scholarly insights on the seaborn contacts between the Aegean, the Balkans
and the Central Mediterranean in the 3rd Millennium cal BCE, where are compared the sites of Levkas and Mala
Gruda. Gold ornaments were discovered at both sites that provide evidence to build a network model of contacts and
common style from the second gold horizon. The gold was distributed together with silver during the third millennium
cal BCE."
I admire this work because of the strong argument and the willing to make the archaeology a live cultural history. It
is so pity that J. Maran typically writes in German that makes him a little bit aside from the global readers of
archaeology. The second admirable fact is the publication of the article online.
We really need badly much more from J. Maran in English.