Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean. Mobility, Materiality and Mediterranean Identities

Edited by Peter van Dommelen and A. Bernard Knapp

(Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK)

The movement of people as well as objects has always stood at the heart of attempts to understand the course and processes of human history. In the Mediterranean, evidence of such movements is particularly abundant and issues like migration, colonisation and trade have played prominent roles in archaeological, historical and anthropological discussions alike. Because migration and colonisation processes have linked the Mediterranean to temperate Europe in both the distant and recent past, the region occupies a critical place in the formulation of modern European identities.

This volume includes a series of innovative, closely related case studies that are designed to amplify significantly the ways Mediterranean scholars have looked at the objects and subjects of their studies. Adopting a material and diachronic, socio-historical approach, the authors examine contacts amongst various Mediterranean islands — Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, the Balearics — and their nearby shores to explore the social and cultural impact of migratory, colonial and exchange encounters.

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Contents

Preface

Peter van Dommelen and A. Bernard Knapp, Material Connections: Mobility, Materiality and Mediterranean Identities

Carlos Cañete, Classifying an Oxymoron. On Black-Boxes, Materiality and Identity in the Scientific Representation of the Mediterranean

Alicia Jiménez, Reproducing Difference:  Mimesis and Colonialism in Roman Hispania

Damià Ramis, From Colonisation to Habitation: Early Cultural Adaptations in the Balearic Bronze Age

Marina Gkiasta, Social Identities, Materiality and Connectivity in Early Bronze Age Crete

Anthony Russell, Foreign Materials, Islander Mobility and Elite Identity in Late Bronze Age Sardinia

Sarah Janes, Negotiating Island Interactions: Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze-Early Iron Ages

Jeremy Hayne, Entangled Identities on Iron Age Sardinia?

Maria Kostoglou, Iron, Connectivity and Local Identities in the Iron Age to Classical Mediterranean

Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz, Mobility, Materiality and Identities in Iron Age East Iberia: On the Appropriation of Material Culture and the Question of Judgement

Corinna Riva, Trading Settlements and the Materiality of Wine Consumption in the North Tyrrhenian Sea Region

Michael Rowlands, Concluding Thoughts
 

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	Author(s)	Title	text	figures
1.	Peter van Dommelen and A. Bernard Knapp	Material Connections	x	x
2.	Carlos Cañete	Classifying an Oxymoron	x	x
3.	Alicia Jiménez	Reproducing Difference	x	x
4.	Damià Ramis	From Colonisation to Habitation	x	x
5.	Marina Gkiasta	Social Identities in Early Bronze Age Crete	x	x
6.	Anthony Russell	Islander Mobility in Late Bronze Age Sardinia	x	x
7.	Sarah Janes	Negotiating Island Interactions	x	x
8.	Jeremy Hayne	Entangled Identities on Iron Age Sardinia	x	x
9.	Maria Kostoglou	Iron and Connectivity in the Classical Mediterranean	x	x
10.	Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz	Mobility in Iron Age East Iberia	x	x
11.	Corinna Riva	Trading Settlements in the North Tyrrhenian Sea Region	x	x
12.	Michael Rowlands	Concluding Thoughts	x	x

cover image (x) and editorial matter (x)

(Final update on 19 March 2010)