1st Edition
Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean Mobility, Materiality and Identity
1. Material connections: mobility, materiality and Mediterranean identities A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen 2.Classifying an oxymoron. On black boxes, materiality and identity in the scientific representation of the Mediterranean Carlos Cañete 3.Reproducing difference: mimesis and colonialism in Roman Hispania Alicia Jiménez 4.From colonisation to habitation: early cultural adaptations in the Balearic Bronze Age Damià Ramis 5.Social identities, materiality and connectivity in Early Bronze Age Crete Marina Gkiasta 6.Foreign materials, islander mobility and elite identity in Late Bronze Age Sardinia Anthony Russell 7.Negotiating island interactions: Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze to Early Iron Ages Sarah Janes 8.Entangled identities on Iron Age Sardinia? Jeremy Hayne 9.Iron, connectivity and local identities in the Iron Age to Classical Mediterranean Maria Kostoglou 10.Mobility, materiality and identities in Iron Age east Iberia: on the appropriation of material culture and the question of judgement Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz 11.Trading settlements and the materiality of wine consumption in the north Tyrrhenian Sea region Corinna Riva 12. Concluding thoughts Michael Rowlands
Biography
Peter van Dommelen, A. Bernard Knapp
CAJ 2012
- The cohesion of the papers and the explicit interaction amongst them is impressive
- The common denominator of Material Connections is method as much as it is the Mediterranean
- The empirical results of the local case studies ... will be necessary reading for archaeologists working in those areas
- ... it provides them with an innovative toolkit for approaching complicated research questions
- ... the book will encourage readers to rethink the ethnic and regional boundaries imposed by their academic disciplines. Jed Thorn, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, USA
TMA 2011
- Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean offers a multitude of ideas about and perspectives on the study of cultural interaction and materiality in the ancient Mediterranean.
- The volume offers much to think about for anyone interested in the themes of cultural interaction and materiality in the Mediterranean Elon Heymans
IJNA 2011
- ... it is a worthy book for both those who are interested in specialised regional studies, and those who want to address wider theoretical questions Mercourios Georgiadis, University of Nottingham, England
