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List of contents
List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction (Susan E Alcock and John F Cherry); Methodological Issues. Mapping and Manuring: Can We Compare Sherd Density Figures? (Michael Given); Are the Landscapes of Greek Prehistory Hidden? A Comparative Approach. (Jack L Davis); Sample Size Matters! The Paradox of Global Trends and Local Surveys (Nicola Terrenato); Solving the Puzzle of the Archaeological Labyrinth: Time Perspectivism in Mediterranean Surface Archaeology (LuAnn Wandsnider). Comparative Studies in the Mediterranean. Side-by-Side and Back-to-Front: Exploring Intra-regional Latitudinal and Longitudinal Comparability in Survey Data. Three Case Studies from Metaponto, Southern Italy (Stephen Thompson); Intra-regional and Inter-regional Comparison of Occupation Histories in Three Italian Regions: The RPC Project (Peter Attema and Martijn van Leusen ); Site by Site: Combining Survey and Excavation Data to Chart Patterns of Socio-political Change in Bronze Age Crete (Tim Cunningham and Jan Driessen); Comparative Settlement Patterns During the Bronze Age in the Northeastern Peloponnesos, Greece (James C Wright); Problems and Possibilities in Comparative Survey: A North African Perspective (David L Stone). Issues and Implications. Accounting for ARS: Fineware and Sites in Sicily and Africa (Elizabeth Fentress, Sergio Fontana, Robert Bruce Hitchner, and Philip Perkins); Demography and Survey (Robin Osborne); Mapping the Roman World: The Contribution of Field Survey Data (David Mattingly and Rob Witcher). Wider Perspectives. From Nucleation to Dispersal: Trends in Settlement Pattern in the Northern Fertile Crescent (T J Wilkinson, Jason Ur, and Jesse Casana); A Comparative Perspective on Settlement Pattern and Population Change in Mesoamerican and Mediterranean Civilizations (Richard E Blanton). Appendix. Internet Resources for Mediterranean Regional Survey Projects: A Preliminary Listing (Jennifer Gates, Susan E Alcock, and John F Cherry).
About the author
Susan E Alcock is the John H. D'Arms Collegiate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan. Her publications include Graecia Capta: The Landscapes of Roman Greece (1993) and Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories (2002).John F Cherry is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Greek at the University of Michigan, and Curator of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. His publications include Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-political Change (co-editor, 1986) and Landscape Archaeology as Long-Term History: Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands (co-author, 1991).
