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Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200–700 BC). Analysis of this category of objects broadens our understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. These containers have often been the subject of specific and detailed pottery studies, but have seldom been examined in the context of connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.This broad study: considers the likely origins of these types of vessels; traces their development and spread throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean as archetypal organic bulk cargo containers; discusses the wider impact on Mediterranean connections, transport and trade over a period of 2,500 years covering the Bronze and early Iron Ages. Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.

Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200–700 BC). Analysis of this category of objects broadens our understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. These containers have often been the subject of specific and detailed pottery studies, but have seldom been examined in the context of connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.

This broad study:

considers the likely origins of these types of vessels;

traces their development and spread throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean as archetypal organic bulk cargo containers;

discusses the wider impact on Mediterranean connections, transport and trade over a period of 2,500 years covering the Bronze and early Iron Ages.

Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.

Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200–700 BC). Analysis of this category of objects broadens our understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. These containers have often been the subject of specific and detailed pottery studies, but have seldom been examined in the context of connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.

This broad study:

considers the likely origins of these types of vessels;

traces their development and spread throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean as archetypal organic bulk cargo containers;

discusses the wider impact on Mediterranean connections, transport and trade over a period of 2,500 years covering the Bronze and early Iron Ages.

Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.

Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200–700 BC). Analysis of this category of objects broadens our understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. These containers have often been the subject of specific and detailed pottery studies, but have seldom been examined in the context of connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.This broad study: considers the likely origins of these types of vessels; traces their development and spread throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean as archetypal organic bulk cargo containers; discusses the wider impact on Mediterranean connections, transport and trade over a period of 2,500 years covering the Bronze and early Iron Ages.Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.

This multidisciplinary volume is a collection of 13 articles reporting on recent research on the archaeology of shipwrecks, maritime visual culture, and cultural heritage management in the Mediterranean region. While papers in this volume’s predecessor, ‘Under the Mediterranean I’, were arranged thematically, the present volume organizes the research regionally, from the East Mediterranean westward, and within each region chronologically.Following the editors’ introduction, the volume begins with case studies on integrated management in East Africa and the East Mediterranean. Subsequent subjects covered in the eastern Mediterranean range from ancient mariners’ ex votos to an update on the Classical Mazotos shipwreck, and from an investigation of a Roman wreck in Cyprus to an analysis of cargo loading processes on the Ma’agan Mikhael B. Moving to the central Mediterranean, papers include the long legacy of rock art, and an ancient Aegean ship’s cargo assemblage, both in Sicily. An analysis of how iconographic sources can supplement material remains, especially perishable material like rigging, is also presented. Some 32 Roman-era shipwreck cargoes are addressed in the Tyrrhenian, while another paper analyses the distribution of heavy cargos, such as marble. Moving forward in time to the Imperial Age, one chapter examines the ceramic and organic remains from the Torre Santa Sabina I wreck, Italy, and another the wreck of the Capo Sagro II wreck from Corsica. The final paper presents a forward-looking analysis of integrated management on a global scale.This book will be of interest to students and archaeologists researching the Mediterranean region, and all readers interested in a wide range of recent advances in maritime archaeology, the history of art, and critical heritage studies.