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This book uses network ideas to explore how the sea connected communities across the ancient Mediterranean. We look at the complexity of cultural interaction, and the diverse modes of maritime mobility through which people and objects moved. It will be of interest to Mediterranean specialists, ancient historians, and maritime archaeologists.
List of contents
1. Maritime networks, connectivity, and mobility in the ancient Mediterranean Justin Leidwanger and Carl Knappett; 2. Robust spatial network analysis Tim Evans; 3. New approaches to the Theran eruption Ray Rivers; 4. Geography matters: defining maritime small worlds of the Aegean Bronze Age Thomas F. Tartaron; 5. Cults, cabotage and connectivity: experimenting with religious and economic networks in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean Barbara Kowalzig; 6. Shipwrecks as indices of Archaic Mediterranean trade networks Elizabeth S. Greene; 7. Netlogo simulations and the use of transport Amphoras in antiquity Mark L. Lawall and Shawn Graham; 8. Lessons learned from the uninformative use of network science techniques: an exploratory analysis of tableware distribution in the Roman Eastern Mediterranean Tom Brughmans; 9. Amphorae, networks, and Byzantine maritime trade Paul Arthur, Marco Leo Imperiale and Giuseppe Muci; 10. Navigating Mediterranean archaeology's maritime networks Barbara J. Mills.
About the author
Justin Leidwanger is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, a faculty member at the Stanford Archaeology Center, and the Omar and Althea Dwyer Hoskins Faculty Scholar at Stanford University, California. His research uses maritime cultural heritage to understand the role of seaborne networks in structuring economic and social relationships across the Roman and late antique worlds.Carl Knappett is Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory. He is the author of Thinking Through Material Culture (2005), and An Archaeology of Interaction (2014), and recently co-editor of Minoan Architecture and Urbanism (2017) with Quentin Letesson, and Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2017) with Evangelia Kiriatzi.
Summary
This book uses network ideas to explore how the sea connected communities across the ancient Mediterranean. We look at the complexity of cultural interaction, and the diverse modes of maritime mobility through which people and objects moved. It will be of interest to Mediterranean specialists, ancient historians, and maritime archaeologists.
