1st Edition
The Ocean Below Human Experiences and Material Culture of Freediving across Time and Space in the Ancient Mediterranean
Chapter 1. Filling the Void: Acknowledging the Sea Depths as a Place of Past Human Action
Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez and Mari Yamasaki
Chapter 2. Freediving Ecology: A Diver’s Approach to the Study of the Archaeological Record
Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez
Chapter 3. Looking into the Past: A Brief Introduction to Eye-Tracking and Its Potential in Understanding Analysis of Artefacts Depicting Human-Water Relations
Tomasz Michalik
Chapter 4. Emerging from Lethe. Terminology and Representation of Divers in Ancient Greek Texts
Eirini Kapogianni
Chapter 5. Habitats Exploited in Ancient Mediterranean Fisheries: Evidence from Vertebrate and Invertebrate Remains, and their Molecular Constituents
Canan Çakırlar
Chapter 6. Ancient Freediving as a Fishing Method in the Archaeological Context of Cyprus
Maria Michael
Chapter 7. Divers and Divers’ Weights in the Eastern Mediterranean
Hakan Öniz and Ceyda Öztosun
Chapter 8. The Imagined Dive. The Impact of Diving Experiences on the Conceptualisation of Underwater Spaces in the Ancient Mediterranean
Mari Yamasaki
Chapter 9. Underwater Encounters in Bronze Age Crete
Andrew Shapland
Chapter 10. The Subaquatic World of African-descended Freedivers. 1444–1888
Kevin Dawson
Chapter 11. Afterword
Mari Yamasaki and Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez.
Biography
Mari Yamasaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Her main research interest is the relationship between humans and the sea in the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean. She published extensively on the topic including the monograph Conceptualizing Bronze Age Seascapes.
Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez is a Galician archaeologist specialized in the study of ancient Greek culture and technology. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Among his publications ‘The Archaeology of Freediving: A Foundational Study’ is a seminal article in this field.
