Rowers depicted on a Late Helladic IIIC sherd
from Seraglio on Kos (from Sandars1980: 131, fig. 92)

Wim van Binsbergen (left) and Fred Woudhuizen; photo Mels van der Mede

The Authors:

Wim van Binsbergen, PhD, is Senior Researcher, African Studies Centre, Leiden, and Professor of Foundations of Intercultural Philosophy (Philosophical Faculty, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Fred Woudhuizen, PhD, is Independent Researcher at Heiloo, Netherlands, and Editor of the journal Talanta: Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society

Author contacts:

wimvanbinsbergen@gmail.com

fredwoudhuizen@yahoo.com  

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., & Woudhuizen, Fred, C., 2011, Ethnicity in Mediterranean Protohistory, British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series No. 2256, Oxford: Archaeopress, 519 pp., 84 figures, 46 tables, cumulative bibliography, index of proper names, authors index, ISBN 978-1-4073-0823-4, £70.

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Click here for an extensive summary of the book and bio-/bibliographical details on the two authors (PDF)

In addition to the Preliminaries, the book consists of the following five parts:

1. PART I. ETHNICITY IN MEDITERRANEAN PROTO-HISTORY: EXPLORATIONS IN THEORY AND METHOD: With extensive discussions of the Homeric catalogue of ships, the Biblical Table of Nations, and the Sea Peoples of the Late Bronze Age, against the background of a long-range comparative framework,
   BY WIM M.J. VAN BINSBERGEN, p. 17
2. PART II. THE ETHNICITY OF THE SEA PEOPLES: AN HISTORICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC STUDY,
   BY FRED C. WOUDHUIZEN, p. 191
3. PART III. THE ETHNICITY OF THE SEA PEOPLES: A SECOND OPINION,
   BY WIM M.J. VAN BINSBERGEN, p. 331
4. PART IV. THE ETHNICITY OF THE SEA PEOPLES: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS, AND IN ANTICIPATION OF CRITICISM,
   BY WIM VAN BINSBERGEN & FRED C. WOUDHUIZEN, p. 395
5. PART V. REFERENCE MATERIAL: CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEXES, p. 419

In addition to: the extensive summary of the book as a whole (click here), click the following links to have a look at fulltext previews (click for PDFs) of

• the book's Preliminaries (Title page, Preface, Table of contents, List of Figures, List of Tables)
  
• Wim van Binsbergen's Chapter 1 of Part I (pp. 17-28): Interdisciplinary co-ordinates, methodological and theoretical orientation, acknowledgements, and summary for Parts I and III
  1.1. Interdisciplinary co-ordinates and acknowledgements for Parts I and III
  1.2. Overall methodological and theoretical perspective for Parts I and III
  1.3. Acknowledgements for Parts I and III continued
  1.4. Summary of Parts I and III

The book's principal focus is on the Mediterranean Bronze Age and the massive political, linguistic and ethnic changes marking that period's end; meanwhile, this chapter particularly dwells on this book's great relevance for, and indebtedness to, African Studies and Intercultural Philosophy, whilst presenting an overview of the main methodological and theoretical tools to be deployed in the course of its argument

• Fred Woudhuizen's Chapter 7: Introduction to Part II
  7.1. Significance of the topic
  7.2. The argument in Part II
  7.3. Acknowledgments for Part II
  7.4. Note on the transcription in Part II, especially of proper names

• the book's Part V: Cumulative bibliography, Index of Proper Names, Index of Authors Cited

or click on the following link for a fulltext download of the entire book:

van Binsbergen, Wim M.J., & Woudhuizen, Fred, C., 2011, Ethnicity in Mediterranean Protohistory, British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series No. 2256, Oxford: Archaeopress, 519 pp., 84 figures, 46 tables, cumulative bibliography, index of proper names, authors index, ISBN 978-1-4073-0823-4, £70.

Fig. 21.2. Statue-menhirs from Corsica: (a) Cauda (with horns reconstructed on the helmets), (b) Scalsa Murta (from Grosjean 1966b. Fig. 5: Sandars 1980: 99. afb. 60)

Fig. 21.3. Distribution of Urnfield culture and (dotted ar­rowed lines) the route of the Sea Peoples; (a) c. 1180 BC