Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean - (Volume 18) - Linda R. Gosner

Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean - (Volume 18) - Linda R. Gosner

Moving Forward: Archaeologies of Connectivity and Mobility

Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean - (Volume 18) - Linda R. Gosner

Linda R. Gosner [+-]
Texas Tech University
Linda R. Gosner is Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at Texas Tech University. Her research centers on local responses to Roman imperialism in rural and industrial landscapes of the Western Mediterranean. In particular, she studies the impact of empire on technology, craft production, labor practices, economies, and everyday life in provincial communities. Linda’s primary research and current book project examines the transformation of mining communities and landscapes in the Iberian Peninsula following Roman conquest. In addition to ongoing research and fieldwork in Spain and Portugal, Linda has co-directed the Sinis Archaeological Project in West-Central Sardinia since 2018 and worked as a core collaborator with the Progetto S’Urachi since 2013. Across these varied projects, Linda’s work engages with broad questions about human-environment interaction, community and identity, labor history, mobility, and culture contact. Linda holds a PhD from the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.
Jeremy Hayne [+-]
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
Jeremy Hayne is an independent researcher who also works at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. His research interests cover the western Mediterranean Iron Age and Classical and Phoenician/Punic periods, focusing on identity, culture contact, and gender. He is an active archaeologist currently working for the S’Urachi fieldwork project in western Sardinia. Recent publications have appeared in The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean (2019) and Babesch.

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This introductory chapter presents the aims, themes, and theoretical underpinnings of this book, which fill gaps in current research on mobility and connectivity. We argue that research should pay increasing attention to small-scale, and regional perspectives as well as to landscapes and contexts of colonization beyond only urban and coastal areas to illuminate the experiences of diverse local communities who were perhaps only obliquely affected by large the scale movements of Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans. Further we believe that by focusing on the West-Central Mediterranean from comparative, longue dureé perspectives can help to bridge traditional research divides along national lines and between prehistoric and classical archaeology. A discussion of our overall rationale for the work is followed by a brief overview of the volume’s contributions, including discussion of the three main thematic sections on human movement, material connectivity, and landscapes.

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Gosner, Linda R.; Hayne, Jeremy. Moving Forward: Archaeologies of Connectivity and Mobility. Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean - (Volume 18). Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 1-26 Mar 2024. ISBN 9781800504387. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=44203. Date accessed: 20 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.44203. Mar 2024

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