Session: #548

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Mobility in Mediterranean Prehistory has consistently served as both a recurrent response to social and environmental constraints and a strategy of resilience and cultural integration. Concurrently, it has played a pivotal role in triggering phenomena such as crisis and transformations, the emergence of social complexity and the collapse of societies. However, the tendency to regard the Mediterranean as a unit, adopting thus a macro-scale approach to investigate mobility and emphasizing long distance seaborne connectivity, has often downplayed the significance of small-scale movements in understanding these phenomena. This session stems from the 3-year research project PRIN2020 “Mobility, social integration and culture change in the Mediterranean Bronze Age”, hosted at the Universities of Udine, Catania and CNR. Focused on mobility in the central and eastern Mediterranean during the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, the project places particular emphasis on networks linking islands and mainland regions, with a primary focus on movement in the Tyrrhenian, Adriatic-Ionian, and Aegean areas.
We welcome papers focusing on these and other Mediterranean areas and prehistoric epochs, fostering a comparative perspective in exploring mobilities connecting Mediterranean islands with their nearest or farthest mainlands and hinterlands. Indeed, any assessment of seaborne interaction, particularly at short and medium ranges, cannot avoid considering the terrestrial domain. We welcome contributions from both early career and established researchers employing different approaches and methodologies to investigate islands-mainland mobilities in Mediterranean Prehistory (6000-800 BCE).

Session: #548

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