Description: Thematically organised papers exploring the anthropology of the body and its role in the construction and performance of social identity in the prehistric eastern Mediterranean
Brief description: Yiannis Papadatos is Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is directing excavation projects in Crete and his main research and teaching interests include Minoan Crete, Early Bronze Age Aegean, archaeology of death and ancient technology of ceramics and metals.
Review Quotes: "The aim of the book was to bring attention to, and contextualize with case studies, the 'archaeology of the body'. With 28 chapters, and a considerable breadth of subjects and specialisations, the volume can be called a success... Several outstanding papers..."-- "Bibliotheca Orientalis"