Global archaeology and microhistorical analysis. Connecting scales in the 1st-milennium B.C. Mediterranean

Bibliographic Data

ID20205280
AuthorsCorinna Riva (0000-0002-1114-9025, University College London, corresponding author), Ignasi Grau Mira (0000-0001-8470-6315, University of Alicante, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume29
Issue1
Pages1-14
Publication date2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchaeological Dialogues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1380-2038 • E-ISSN: 1478-2294
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1380203822000101
OpenAlexW4283017213
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited70

Recently, voices have been raised regarding the challenges of Big Data-driven global approaches, including the realization that exclusively tackling the global scale masks social and historical realities. While multi-scalar analyses have confronted this problem, the effects of global approaches are being felt. We highlight one of these effects: as classical scholarship struggles to decolonize itself, the ancient Mediterranean in global archaeology pivots around the Graeco-Roman world only, marginalizing the non-classical Mediterranean, thus foiling attempts at promoting post-colonial perspectives. In highlighting this, our aim is twofold: first, to invigorate the debate on multi-scalar approaches, proposing to incorporate microhistory into archaeological analysis; second, to use the non-classical Mediterranean to demonstrate that historical depth at a micro level is essential to augment that power in our interpretations

Archaeology · Decolonization · Mediterranean climate · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law