Islands are ideal case studies for exploring social connectivity, episodes of colonisation,
abandonment, and alternating phases of cultural interaction and isolation. Their societies …

Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities.
In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and …

Islands in Time explores the ecological and cultural development of prehistoric island
societies. It considers the prehistory of the Mediterranean and offers an explanation of the …

Island biogeography was developed in the 1960s but derives from a long heritage of treating
islands as distinct and special places when compared to continental situations. The ancestry …

Before the mid-1970s, a distinctive subfield of 'Mediterranean island archaeology'cannot be
said to have existed; there were only archaeologies of individual islands or island groups …

Prehistorians working in the Mediterranean have long realised that islands have been
central to human mobility from early times. Indeed, the traditional focus on material culture …

The human colonization of islands was radically different in nature from the occupation of
new territories by prehistoric communities on the mainland. The Balearics are the most …

In 1981 one of us (Cherry) first attempted to identify spatial and temporal patterning in the
human colonization of the Mediterranean islands. Since the 1980s, slowly accumulating …

Island archeology is increasingly using network science to make sense of patterns of
connectivity in the past. This article advocates in favor of a greater dialogue between these …

Research into past and present islands and coastal communities in Greece has long
remained steeped in biogeographical concepts. An overview of relevant surface survey …