In English. Soft cover, 29 cm, 356 pp., b/w & colour figures, tables, drawings; net weight 1750 gr. ISBN: 9789963560936.From the Introduction: "The Eastern Mediterranean has been a field of cultural interaction since early prehistoric times (11th mill. B.C.). Due to the need for the acquisition of raw materials, ceramic technologies and metalwork, interaction became more intensive in the second half of the third millennium BC. Cultural interaction reached its peak at the end of the second millennium BC, when population groups deriving in particular from palatial political-economic entities reached neighbouring coasts in order either to establish emporia and expand their economic influence within the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean or in order to escape from their homeland for social and political reasons. The presence of foreign traders or immigrants can be traced in material culture. The categories of finds and the intensity of the presence of 'foreign' customs in everyday life (cooking), industrial activities (textile production, metalworking) and symbolic actions (feasts of elite groups) from the Aegean through Anatolia and Cyprus to the Near East are strong indicators for the tracing of ethnicity in the eastern Mediterranean. The aim of this International Symposium is to study the aforementioned aspects based upon new archaeological and analytical evidence and possibly to reconstruct the networks of population movements in Bronze Age Cyprus and neighbouring regi ...