Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World
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.
Chapter One - Maritime Networks, Connectivity, and Mobility in the Ancient Mediterranean
Justin Leidwanger, Carl Knappett
Chapter Two - Robust Spatial Network Analysis
Tim Evans
Chapter Three - New Approaches to the Theran Eruption
Ray Rivers
Chapter Four - Geography Matters: Defining Maritime Small Worlds of the Aegean Bronze Age
Thomas F. Tartaron
Chapter Five - Cults, Cabotage, and Connectivity: Experimenting with Religious and Economic Networks in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
Barbara Kowalzig
Chapter Six - Shipwrecks as Indices of Archaic Mediterranean Trade Networks
Elizabeth S. Greene
Chapter Seven - Netlogo Simulations and the Use of Transport Amphoras in Antiquity
Mark L. Lawall, Shawn Graham
Chapter Eight - Lessons Learned from the Uninformative Use of Network Science Technique: An Exploratory Analysis of Tableware Distribution in the Roman Eastern Mediterranean
Tom Brughmans
Chapter Nine - Amphoras, Networks, and Byzantine Maritime Trade
Paul Arthur, Marco Leo Imperiale, Giuseppe Muci
Chapter Ten - Navigating Mediterranean Archaeology’s Maritime Networks
Barbara J. Mills