Mediterranean Resilience: Collapse and Adaptation in Antique Maritime Societies

Edited byAssaf Yasur-Landau, University of HaifaAssaf Yasur-Landau is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology, Head of the Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies, founder of the Laboratory for Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey, and cofounder of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. He studies mobility, ancient economy, and human adaptation in the Mediterranean during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Currently, he codirects the excavations of the Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri and the underwater excavations at Tel Dor. Yasur-Landau has penned about a hundred articles and is the author or editor of eight books and volumes, including The Philistines and Aegean Migration in the Late Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press 2010, 2014).Gil Gambash, University of HaifaGil Gambash is a classical historian studying the ancient Mediterranean. Former chair of the Department of Maritime Civilizations and former director of the Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, Gambash is Professor at the University of Haifa. Co-founder and director of the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, his current projects include a book on the maritime southern Levant and multidisciplinary research on arid areas and their interaction with the maritime sphere. Gambash was recently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Institute of Classical Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.Thomas Evan Levy, University of California, San DiegoThomas Evan Levy is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division, Co-Director of the Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute and inaugural holder of the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. With over thirty years of archaeological field experience in Israel and Jordan, Levy’s current research focuses on the Iron Age historical archaeology of Edom in southern Jordan. He is Associate Director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) at UCSD’s California Insitute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Levy is editor of Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult: The Sanctuary at Gilat, Israel (Equinox Publishing, 2006) and co-editor, with Thomas Higham, of The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating: Archaeology, Text and Science (Equinox Publishing, 2005). His most recent book, with his wife Alina and the Sthapathy brothers of Swamimalai is Masters of Fire: Hereditary Bronze Casters of South India (German Mining Museum, 2008). Levy is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• Table of ContentsPrelimsList of Figures and Tables vii-xiiPreface xiii-xvChapter 1. Introduction: Mediterranean Resilience, Collapse, and Adaptation in Antique Maritime Societies 1-9, Assaf Yasur-Landau, Gil Gambash, Thomas Evan LevyChapter 2. Micro-geoarchaeology: An Essential Component in the Detection and Decipherment of Resilience, Collapse, and Adaptation 10-28, Ruth Shahack-GrossChapter 3. A Multi-Method Approach for Studying Environmental-Human Interaction: A Case Study from Dor, the Carmel Coast in Israel 29-51, Gilad Shtienberg,Michael LazarChapter 4. The Maritime Neolithic: An Evaluation of Marine Adaptation in Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory 53-65, Chelsea WisemanChapter 5. The Early Bronze I Coastal Settlements of Israel: A New Phenomenon or Part of a Long-Lived Settlement Tradition? 66-91, Roey Nickelsberg,Ruth Shahack-Gross,Assaf Yasur-LandauChapter 6. Cypriot Pottery as an Indicator of Adaptive Trade Networks 92-114, Brigid ClarkChapter 7. The Collapse of the Mycenaean Palaces Revisited 115-127, Philipp StockhammerChapter 8. A 12th-Century BCE Shipwreck Assemblage Containing Copper Ingots, from Neve-Yam, Israel 128-155, Ehud Galili, Dafna Langgut ,Ehud Arkin Shalev, Baruch Rosen, Naama Yahalom-Mack, Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez, Assaf Yasur-LandauChapter 9. 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 156-166, Eric H. ClineChapter 10. Anthropogenic Erosion from Hellenistic to Recent Times in the Northern Gulf of Corinth, Greece 167-186, Katrina Cantu, Richard Norris, George Papatheodorou, Ioannis Liritzis, Dafna Langgut, Maria Geraga, Thomas Evan LevyChapter 11. Cultural Resilience in the Hellenistic Southern Levant 187-205, Eleonora BedinChapter 12, Negev Fragility and Mediterranean Prosperity in Late Antiquity 206-221, Gil GambashChapter 13. Collapses and Renascences: What the Maya and the Old World Have in Common 222-236, Geoffrey E. BraswellEnd MatterIndex 237-253