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- Title
New Book Chronicle.
- Authors
Witcher, Robert
- Abstract
Is the era of globalisation on the wane or on the cusp of a new phase of extraordinary expansion? US president Trump's abandonment of trade agreements and the rise of protectionism coincide with China's ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, an unprecedented investment in infrastructure across Asia, Europe and North Africa to improve the connectivity of China with its markets by both land and sea. The future is therefore anyone's guess, but what about the past? There has been much discussion by archaeologists about ancient globalisations (most recently, Hodos 2017), but archaeological studies have often typically been set within the looser framework of ‘connectivity’—the interconnectedness of people and places and the movement of material culture and ideas. The books reviewed here are concerned with various aspects of connectivity, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean and its European hinterland. All of the volumes are edited collections, each adopting a different unifying theme—the influence of Braudel, a single country as microcosm, the transfer of technology, change vs tradition, and the effects of boundaries and frontiers. Do any wider insights into connectivity in the past emerge? And where might archaeological studies of connectivity go next?
- Subjects
ACROSS the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian approaches to the ancient Eastern Mediterranean (Book); CROATIA at the crossroads: A consideration of archaeological &; historical connectivity (Book); CONCANNON, Cavan; MAZUREK, Lindsey A.; DAVISON, David; GAFFNEY, Vince; MIRACLE, Preston; SOFAER, Jo; NONFICTION
- Publication
Antiquity, 2017, Vol 91, Issue 359, p1401
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.15184/aqy.2017.175