Emma Blake
Biographic Data
| ID | 188265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Blake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Blake |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Letter from the Editors
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief
Archaeology of Contemporary Migrant Journeys in Western Sicily
The Sicilian Channel between Sicily and North Africa receives global attention as a major migratory routefor undocumented people entering Europe clandestinely, a tragic nexus of transnational displacement anddesperation. While the plight of massively overloaded and unseaworthy boats of people justifiably receivesthe bulk of media attention, there is a less-observed movement that occurs and has occurred for thousandsof years: small boats expertly …
Richard Jones , Sara T. Levi , Marco Bettelli & Lucia Vagnetti . Italo-Mycenaean pottery
Richard Jones , Sara T. Levi , Marco Bettelli & Lucia Vagnetti . Italo-Mycenaean pottery: the archaeological and archaeometric dimensions (Incunabula Graeca 103). 2014. 588 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. Rome: CNR–Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico; 978-88-87345-20-9 paperback €85. - Volume 89 Issue 348
Dyads and Triads in Community Detection
Alors qu’en archéologie l’utilisation des analyses de réseaux sociaux gagne en maturité, de nouvelles approches peuvent être intégrées à l’outillage de la discipline. L’étude des structures locales, de la relation des nodes et des nœuds au sein des réseaux, en particulier dyadiques et triadiques, est considérée depuis longtemps comme un domaine important pour les analyses de réseaux sociaux. Toutefois, ce domaine est resté virtuellement ignoré de…
Introduzione
Nello studio delle popolazioni dell’Italia nel primo millennio a.C., il confronto con fonti storiche, linguistiche e archeologiche lacunose e contraddittorie pone seri problemi. Tutto sembra indicare che l’Italia fosse, al tempo della conquista romana, divisa in tante popolazioni ben definite. Tuttavia i popoli « storici » designati da etnonimi, i gruppi linguistici e le culture archeologiche non si sovrappongono perfettamente, il che non consent…
Social Networks, Path Dependence, and the Rise of Ethnic Groups in pre-Roman Italy
This chapter uses the evidence from west-central Italy, home to two of the peninsula's strongest regional groups before the rise of Rome — the Etruscans and the Latins — to demonstrate that the regional groups of the first millennium bce may be traced from earlier than previously thought, and were the outcome of intra-regional social networks in place by the Final Bronze Age or earlier. It proposes that these networks are visible archaeologically…
Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory
The Mycenaeans in Italy
Gli ultimi cinque decenni hanno visto un forte incremento del numero dei siti che in Italia hanno restituito frammenti di ceramica micenea. L'elevata presenza attribuita ai Micenei ha incoraggiato la teoria che furono loro ad innescare gli sviluppi sociali sperimentati in Italia alla fine dell'età del Bronzo. Concentrandosi sull'evidenza ceramica, questo contributo assume una posizione minimalista, sostenendo che le relazioni tra i Micenei e le g…
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory
List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on Contributors. 1. Prehistory in the Mediterranean: The Corrupting and Connecting Sea: A. Bernard Knapp and Emma Blake (University of Glasgow University of Michigan). 2. Substances in Motion: Neolithic Mediterranean 'Trade': John E. Robb and R. Helen Farr (both University of Cambridge). 3. Agriculture, Pastoralism, and Mediterranean Landscapes in Prehistory: Graeme Barker (University of Cambridge). 4. Chang…
Chapter 7. Situating Sardinia's Giants' Tombs in Their Spatial, Social, and Temporal Contexts
The positioning of Sardinia's Bronze Age tombs was as carefully planned as their design. Working from that premise, this chapter analyzes the spatial patterning of these tombs in relation to contemporary settlements, for insights into the tombs' function. Standard interpretations of the tombs' purpose are weighed against the spatial data and artifactual evidence, and are discarded. A more nuanced picture of the tombs' role in Nuragic society emer…
Spatiality past and present
Constructing a Nuragic Locale
Sardinia's monumental tombs and settlement towers (nuraghi) are the most distinctive remnants of the island's Nuragic culture, spanning the early second millennium B.C. into the first millennium B.C. Studies of this period inevitably begin and end with the architecture, and these monuments serve as the primary evidence for reconstructing social and political organization, subsistence strategies, religion, and technology. Yet in each case the monu…
Identity-Mapping in the Sardinian Bronze Age
The aim of this paper is to locate in the emergence and elaboration of Sardinia's Nuragic society, a narrative of cultural identity formation. The Nuragic period is typically defined in terms of economic, social, and demographic characteristics, and a Nuragic identity is implicitly taken to be a passive byproduct of these material circumstances. Such an account overlooks the role of identity in enabling and characterizing human action. The disjoi…
Strategic Symbolism
From Sardinia's later Nuragic period, there are found miniature stone and bronze representations of the nuraghi, the island's distinctive stone towers. These distinguish themselves from the building models of the eastern Mediterranean, in that they are not found in habitations as foundation offerings, nor are they from mortuary contexts, but rather from ritual sites. Traditionally, these models have been amassed into a single archaeological categ…
Sardinia's nuraghi
The purpose of this paper is to examine the social impact of the enduring presence of the nuraghi, Sardinia's monumental Bronze Age towers. From later prehistory through the modern era, the towers have featured prominently in both the social and environmental landscapes of the island. Their enduring importance has been attributed to cultural conservatism or functionalist motivations. Instead this paper considers the sustained social impact of the…
Negotiating Nuraghi
Sardinia's nuraghi
The purpose of this paper is to examine the social impact of the enduring presence of the nuraghi, Sardinia's monumental Bronze Age towers. From later prehistory through the modern era, the towers have featured prominently in both the social and environmental landscapes of the island. Their enduring importance has been attributed to cultural conservatism or functionalist motivations. Instead this paper considers the sustained social impact of the…
Identity-Mapping in the Sardinian Bronze Age
The aim of this paper is to locate in the emergence and elaboration of Sardinia's Nuragic society, a narrative of cultural identity formation. The Nuragic period is typically defined in terms of economic, social, and demographic characteristics, and a Nuragic identity is implicitly taken to be a passive byproduct of these material circumstances. Such an account overlooks the role of identity in enabling and characterizing human action. The disjoi…
Archaeology of Contemporary Migrant Journeys in Western Sicily
The Sicilian Channel between Sicily and North Africa receives global attention as a major migratory routefor undocumented people entering Europe clandestinely, a tragic nexus of transnational displacement anddesperation. While the plight of massively overloaded and unseaworthy boats of people justifiably receivesthe bulk of media attention, there is a less-observed movement that occurs and has occurred for thousandsof years: small boats expertly …
The Mycenaeans in Italy
Gli ultimi cinque decenni hanno visto un forte incremento del numero dei siti che in Italia hanno restituito frammenti di ceramica micenea. L'elevata presenza attribuita ai Micenei ha incoraggiato la teoria che furono loro ad innescare gli sviluppi sociali sperimentati in Italia alla fine dell'età del Bronzo. Concentrandosi sull'evidenza ceramica, questo contributo assume una posizione minimalista, sostenendo che le relazioni tra i Micenei e le g…
Constructing a Nuragic Locale
Sardinia's monumental tombs and settlement towers (nuraghi) are the most distinctive remnants of the island's Nuragic culture, spanning the early second millennium B.C. into the first millennium B.C. Studies of this period inevitably begin and end with the architecture, and these monuments serve as the primary evidence for reconstructing social and political organization, subsistence strategies, religion, and technology. Yet in each case the monu…
Strategic Symbolism
From Sardinia's later Nuragic period, there are found miniature stone and bronze representations of the nuraghi, the island's distinctive stone towers. These distinguish themselves from the building models of the eastern Mediterranean, in that they are not found in habitations as foundation offerings, nor are they from mortuary contexts, but rather from ritual sites. Traditionally, these models have been amassed into a single archaeological categ…
Negotiating Nuraghi
Strategic Symbolism
From Sardinia's later Nuragic period, there are found miniature stone and bronze representations of the nuraghi, the island's distinctive stone towers. These distinguish themselves from the building models of the eastern Mediterranean, in that they are not found in habitations as foundation offerings, nor are they from mortuary contexts, but rather from ritual sites. Traditionally, these models have been amassed into a single archaeological categ…
Sardinia's nuraghi
The purpose of this paper is to examine the social impact of the enduring presence of the nuraghi, Sardinia's monumental Bronze Age towers. From later prehistory through the modern era, the towers have featured prominently in both the social and environmental landscapes of the island. Their enduring importance has been attributed to cultural conservatism or functionalist motivations. Instead this paper considers the sustained social impact of the…
Identity-Mapping in the Sardinian Bronze Age
The aim of this paper is to locate in the emergence and elaboration of Sardinia's Nuragic society, a narrative of cultural identity formation. The Nuragic period is typically defined in terms of economic, social, and demographic characteristics, and a Nuragic identity is implicitly taken to be a passive byproduct of these material circumstances. Such an account overlooks the role of identity in enabling and characterizing human action. The disjoi…
Constructing a Nuragic Locale
Sardinia's monumental tombs and settlement towers (nuraghi) are the most distinctive remnants of the island's Nuragic culture, spanning the early second millennium B.C. into the first millennium B.C. Studies of this period inevitably begin and end with the architecture, and these monuments serve as the primary evidence for reconstructing social and political organization, subsistence strategies, religion, and technology. Yet in each case the monu…
Chapter 7. Situating Sardinia's Giants' Tombs in Their Spatial, Social, and Temporal Contexts
The positioning of Sardinia's Bronze Age tombs was as carefully planned as their design. Working from that premise, this chapter analyzes the spatial patterning of these tombs in relation to contemporary settlements, for insights into the tombs' function. Standard interpretations of the tombs' purpose are weighed against the spatial data and artifactual evidence, and are discarded. A more nuanced picture of the tombs' role in Nuragic society emer…
Spatiality past and present
The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory
List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on Contributors. 1. Prehistory in the Mediterranean: The Corrupting and Connecting Sea: A. Bernard Knapp and Emma Blake (University of Glasgow University of Michigan). 2. Substances in Motion: Neolithic Mediterranean 'Trade': John E. Robb and R. Helen Farr (both University of Cambridge). 3. Agriculture, Pastoralism, and Mediterranean Landscapes in Prehistory: Graeme Barker (University of Cambridge). 4. Chang…
Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory
The Mycenaeans in Italy
Gli ultimi cinque decenni hanno visto un forte incremento del numero dei siti che in Italia hanno restituito frammenti di ceramica micenea. L'elevata presenza attribuita ai Micenei ha incoraggiato la teoria che furono loro ad innescare gli sviluppi sociali sperimentati in Italia alla fine dell'età del Bronzo. Concentrandosi sull'evidenza ceramica, questo contributo assume una posizione minimalista, sostenendo che le relazioni tra i Micenei e le g…
Social Networks, Path Dependence, and the Rise of Ethnic Groups in pre-Roman Italy
This chapter uses the evidence from west-central Italy, home to two of the peninsula's strongest regional groups before the rise of Rome — the Etruscans and the Latins — to demonstrate that the regional groups of the first millennium bce may be traced from earlier than previously thought, and were the outcome of intra-regional social networks in place by the Final Bronze Age or earlier. It proposes that these networks are visible archaeologically…
Dyads and Triads in Community Detection
Alors qu’en archéologie l’utilisation des analyses de réseaux sociaux gagne en maturité, de nouvelles approches peuvent être intégrées à l’outillage de la discipline. L’étude des structures locales, de la relation des nodes et des nœuds au sein des réseaux, en particulier dyadiques et triadiques, est considérée depuis longtemps comme un domaine important pour les analyses de réseaux sociaux. Toutefois, ce domaine est resté virtuellement ignoré de…
Introduzione
Nello studio delle popolazioni dell’Italia nel primo millennio a.C., il confronto con fonti storiche, linguistiche e archeologiche lacunose e contraddittorie pone seri problemi. Tutto sembra indicare che l’Italia fosse, al tempo della conquista romana, divisa in tante popolazioni ben definite. Tuttavia i popoli « storici » designati da etnonimi, i gruppi linguistici e le culture archeologiche non si sovrappongono perfettamente, il che non consent…
Richard Jones , Sara T. Levi , Marco Bettelli & Lucia Vagnetti . Italo-Mycenaean pottery
Richard Jones , Sara T. Levi , Marco Bettelli & Lucia Vagnetti . Italo-Mycenaean pottery: the archaeological and archaeometric dimensions (Incunabula Graeca 103). 2014. 588 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. Rome: CNR–Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico; 978-88-87345-20-9 paperback €85. - Volume 89 Issue 348
Archaeology of Contemporary Migrant Journeys in Western Sicily
The Sicilian Channel between Sicily and North Africa receives global attention as a major migratory routefor undocumented people entering Europe clandestinely, a tragic nexus of transnational displacement anddesperation. While the plight of massively overloaded and unseaworthy boats of people justifiably receivesthe bulk of media attention, there is a less-observed movement that occurs and has occurred for thousandsof years: small boats expertly …
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief
A Letter from the Editors-in-Chief
A Letter from the Editors
History (10 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (6 works) · Bronze Age (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)