People and their material culture have moved across the Mediterranean since early
prehistory. By the early first millennium BC, a crucial change occurred when people began …

This volume presents a comprehensive review of palaeoenvironmental evidence and its
incorporation with landscape archaeology from across the Mediterranean. A fundamental …

Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman
worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the …

The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment The
growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our …

The study of the collapse of past societies raises many questions for the theory and practice
of archaeology. Interest in collapse extends as well into the natural sciences and …

Historically, mastery of writing was deemed essential to human progress. However, recent
advances in generative AI have marked an inflection point in this narrative, including for …

“An important new book... offers a powerful call for historians of the ancient Mediterranean to
consider their implicit biases in writing ancient history and it provides an example of how …

Communities of Style examines the production and circulation of portable luxury goods
throughout the Levant in the early Iron Age (1200–600 BCE). In particular it focuses on how …

H ybridity and hybridization have recently become buzzwords in archaeological studies. In
particular archaeologists working in the Mediterranean on Bronze Age networks of …

Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and
differed from their homeland. Explanations for these similarities and differences have been …