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Mediterranean resilience : collapse and adaptation in antique maritime societies /

The aim of this volume is to examine various forms of adaptation adopted by coastal societies in the ancient Mediterranean in response to external pressures they occasionally experienced. The investigation spans the longue durée stretching from the epi-paleolithic to the Medieval period.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yasur-Landau, Assaf (Author, Editor), Gambash, Gil, 1973- (Author, Editor), Levy, Thomas Evan (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK ; Bristol, Connecticut : Equinox Publishing Ltd, [2024].
Series:New directions in anthropological archaeology.
Subjects:
Mediterranean Region > Antiquities.
Mediterranean Region > Civilization.
Coastal archaeology > Mediterranean Region.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Mediterranean Region.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Mediterranean resilience, collapse, and adaptation in antique maritime societies / Assaf Yasur-Landau, Gil Gambash, and Thomas E. Levy
  • Micro-geoarchaeology: an essential component in the detection and decipherment of resilience, collapse, and adaptation / Ruth Shahack-Gross
  • A multi-method approach for studying environmental-human interaction: a case study from Dor, the Carmel Coast in Israel / Gilad Shtienberg and Michael Lazar
  • The maritime neolithic: an evaluation of marine adaptation in Eastern Mediterranean prehistory / Chelsea Wiseman
  • The early bronze I coastal settlements of Israel: a new phenomenon or part of a long-lived settlement tradition? / Roey Nickelsberg, Ruth Shahack-Gross, and Assaf Yasur-Landau
  • Cypriot pottery as an indicator of adaptive trade networks / Brigid Clark
  • The collapse of the Mycenaean palaces revisited / Philipp W. Stockhammer
  • A twelfth-century BCE shipwreck assemblage containing copper ingots, from Neve-Yam, Israel / Ehud Galili, Dafna Langgut, Ehud Arkin Shalev, Baruch Rosen, Naama Yahalom-Mack, Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, and Assaf Yasur-Landau
  • The collapse of cultures at the end of the late bronze age in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean: new developments, punctuated equilibrium, and further questions / Eric H. Cline
  • Anthropogenic erosion from Hellenistic to recent times in the Northern Gulf of Corinth, Greece / Katrina Cantu, Richard Norris, George Papatheodorou, Ioannis Liritzis, Dafna Langgut, Maria Geraga, and Thomas E. Levy
  • Cultural resilience in the Hellenistic southern Levant / Eleonora Bedin
  • Negev fragility and Mediterranean prosperity in late Antiquity / Gil Gambash
  • Collapses and renascences: what the Maya and the old world have in common / Geoffrey E. Braswell