Title

Imperial surplus and local tastes: A comparative study of Mediterranean connectivity and trade

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Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Abstract

© 2016 selection and editorial matter, Cavan Concannon and Lindsey A. Mazurek. Regional programs of archaeological survey have long oered a unique and important contribution to the scholarship on connectivity in the Mediterranean. In documenting the distribution of sites and artifacts across disparate landscapes, archaeological surveys record a snapshot of the orientation of particular regions toward broader networks of production, trade, and culture. e most basic and ubiquitous kinds of object recorded through survey-fragmented ceramic jars, amphorae, basins, pots, bowls, and plates-speak to questions about a region’s links to territories and provinces elsewhere. e sophisticated tools for quantifying, analyzing, and mapping survey data through databases and geospatial platforms, moreover, have established a basis for measuring changes in connectivity over time and space. Finally, the juxtaposition of dierent sets of survey data side-by-side highlights the dierential access of regions, communities, and sites to the networks of distribution that passed the basic stu of daily life across the corrupting seas.

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Originally published as:

Caraher, William, and David K. Pettegrew (2016). Imperial Surplus and Local Tastes: A Comparative Study of Mediterranean Connectivity and Trade, in Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by C. Concannon and L. Mazurek. London, 165-191: Routledge.

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