Theme:
6. The Mediterranean from Within
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Mediterranean Interaction ?from within?: Island and Coastal Communities in Dialogue
Content:
Recent advances in scientific methods have highlighted the extent of cultural interaction among island and coastal communities at a global scale and challenged long-held notions of islands as isolated cultural laboratories. Interaction has been increasingly traced from inland and coastal communities to smaller islands, indicating how connectivity networks reflect multiple expressions of identity. The current shift towards connectivity should encourage us to understand these networks in a new way, one that considers the active agency of coastal and island communities in the establishment and development of networks directed inland as well as towards the sea.
In this session, we seek to explore how changes in connectivity relate to identity, material culture, and practices over time and to discuss how the interplay between islands, coastal, and inland communities provides the opportunity to explore issues of cultural integration as well as phenomena of localism and resilience. From network analysis to landscape studies, through pottery, metalwork or nautical data, our goal is to understand how different scales and rhythms of connectivity are reflected in the archaeological record. We hope to open up a dialogue across a range of perspectives in the study of connectivity drawing on different theoretical and methodological approaches. Disciplinary, chronological, and geographical boundaries are deliberately avoided to generate discussions that widen our understanding of cultural interaction in the Mediterranean and beyond.
Keywords:
Island archaeology, Connectivity, Isolation
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Alejandra Galmes Alba (Spain) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Helen Dawson (Italy) 3
Manuel Calvo-Trias (Spain) 2
Sara Marino (Italy) 4
Francesco Quondam (Austria) 5
Affiliations:
1. INCIPIT - CSIC
2. ArqueoUIB research group, University of the Balearic Islands
3. Universitá di Bologna
4. Sapienza University of Rome
5. Universitat Wien
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