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1 online resource (337 pages)
ISBN:
9780190083670
Inhalt:
Drawing together maritime landscape studies and network analysis, this book offers an archaeological exploration of seaborne economy and connectivity across the Roman eastern Mediterranean, where the material record of shipwrecks and ports reveals multiple evolving regional and interregional systems of interaction.
Inhalt:
cover -- Half title -- Roman Seas -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Maritime Interaction and Mediterranean Communities -- Movement, Connectivity, and Economic History -- Roman Maritime Economies -- Shipwreck Datasets -- An Eastern Mediterranean Case Study -- The Route Ahead -- 2. Topography and Tools of Interaction -- Marine Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean -- Evidence for Ships and Seafaring -- Roman and Late Antique Seagoing Vessels -- Ancient Mediterranean Sailing -- Diversity and Dynamism -- 3. Modeling Maritime Dynamics -- Regionalisms -- Landscapes -- Mobilities -- Thinking through Networks -- From Ancient Mobility to Dynamic Networks -- Maritime Archaeology and Network Potential -- 4. Exploring Shipwreck Data -- Number Crunching -- Connective Structures -- Spatial Topography of Seafaring -- Toward Big Data for Maritime Economies -- 5. Ports and Everyday Economies -- Situating Roman Ports -- Two Miniature "Archipelagos" -- Ports, Hinterlands, and Network Interaction -- "Nodes of Density" -- 6. Maritime Networks in the Roman East -- Small-Scale Activity and Regional Integration -- Emergence and Evolution of Maritime Networks -- From Maritime Archaeologies to Economic Histories -- Further Journeys -- Appendix 1. Roman and Late Antique Shipwrecks from Southwest Turkey and the Northeast Mediterranean -- Appendix 2. Wind Patterns in the Southeast Aegean and Northeast Mediterranean -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780190083656
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780190083656
Sprache:
Englisch
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