Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Leidwanger, Justin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance theoretical approaches and analytical tools for studying maritime connectivity. For the coast-hugging populations of the ancient Mediterranean, mobility and exchange depended on a distinct environment and technological parameters that created diverse challenges and opportunities, making the modeling of maritime interaction a paramount concern for understanding cultural interaction more generally. Network-inspired metaphors have long been employed in discussions of this interaction, but increasing theoretical sophistication and advances in formal network analysis now offer opportunities to refine and test the dominant paradigm of connectivity. Extending from prehistory into the Byzantine period, the case studies here reveal the potential of such network approaches. Collectively they explore the social, economic, religious, and political structures that guided Mediterranean interaction across maritime space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108688802
• Artikelnr.: 56654060

Inhaltsangabe

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.