Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World
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Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World

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Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Preface
  10. Chapter One Maritime Networks, Connectivity, and Mobility in the Ancient Mediterranean
  11. Chapter Two Robust Spatial Network Analysis
  12. Chapter Three New Approaches to the Theran Eruption
  13. Chapter Four Geography Matters: Defining Maritime Small Worlds of the Aegean Bronze Age
  14. Chapter Five Cults, Cabotage, and Connectivity: Experimenting with Religious and Economic Networks in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
  15. Chapter Six Shipwrecks as Indices of Archaic Mediterranean Trade Networks
  16. Chapter Seven Netlogo Simulations and the Use of Transport Amphoras in Antiquity
  17. Chapter Eight Lessons Learned from the Uninformative Use of Network Science Techniques: An Exploratory Analysis of Tableware Distribution in the Roman Eastern Mediterranean
  18. Chapter Nine Amphoras, Networks, and Byzantine Maritime Trade
  19. Chapter Ten Navigating Mediterranean Archaeology’s Maritime Networks
  20. Index