The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean ofers new insights into the material and social practices of many diferent Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that motivate and structure Mediterranean archaeology today, including insularity and connectivity; mobility, migration and colonisation; hybridisation and cultural encounters; materiality, memory and identity; community and household; life and death; and ritual and ideology. The vol- ume’s broad coverage of diferent approaches and contemporary archaeological practices will enable even general readers to understand better the people, ideas and materials that make up the world of Mediterranean archaeology today, beyond the borders that separate Europe, Africa and the Middle East. It will also help the practitioners of Mediterranean archae- ology to move the subject forward in new and dynamic ways. A. Bernard Knapp is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Research Fellow at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia. He has held research appoint- ments at the University of Sydney, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, Cambridge University and Macquarie University (Sydney). His research interests include archaeological theory (e.g. insularity and island archaeology, social identity, gender, and hybridisation practices), archaeological landscapes and regional archaeologies and Bronze Age Mediterranean prehistory generally. He is co-editor of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and editor of the series Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology. His most recent book is The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Peter van Dommelen is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World of Brown University. Between 1997 and 2012, he taught Mediterranean Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology of the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK). He was visiting professor in the Department of History of the University of the Balearics (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) in 2012, in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Cagliari (Italy) in 2011, and in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Valencia (Spain) in 2005–2006. His research interests include colonialism, rural households and landscapes in the (west) Mediterranean, in both ancient and more recent times. In practical terms, he has long been engaged in ield survey and ceramic studies in Sardinia, Italy. Founding co-editor of the journal Archaeological Dialogues until 2006, he cur- rently co-edits the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and sits on the editorial board of World Archaeology. He is co-author of Rural Landscapes of the Punic World (2008). www.cambridge.org © in this web service Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76688-3 - The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean Edited by A. Bernard Knapp and Peter Van Dommelen Frontmatter More information