View of Punto del Saraceno and Monte Cófano in NW Sicily (San Vito lo Capo)

Material Connections: Mobility, Materiality and Mediterranean Identities

Activities & Events

The events organised by the project are:

  • a conference session at the 14th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) held in Valetta, Malta, on 16-21 September 2008;
  • a two-day workshop in Glasgow on 19-20 March 2008;
  • a series of public seminars in Glasgow between September 2008 and December 2009.

The conference session and workshop have resulted in the publication of a book titled Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean. Mobility, Materiality and Identity, edited by Peter van Dommelen and Bernard Knapp. It is published by Routledge in September 2010 (more information).


Material Connections


Nuragic (Bronze-Iron Age) bronze model of boat from Sardinia (National Archaeological Museum Sassari).


Satellite view of the entire Mediterranean