Reviewing Cyprian Broodbank’s The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013)

Authors

  • Cyprian Broodbank University College London
  • Graeme Barker University of Cambridge
  • Lin Foxhall University of Leicester
  • Sturt Manning Cornell University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.v27i1.101

Keywords:

Mediterranean, classical world

Author Biographies

  • Cyprian Broodbank, University College London
    Cyprian Broodbank is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London (UK) and author of The Making of the Middle Sea (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013). He will take up the position of Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge in October 2014.
  • Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge
    Graeme Barker holds the Disney Professorship of Archaeology and is Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge (UK). Fieldwork has taken him around the entire Mediterranean to Libya, Italy and Jordan before he turned his attention to Indonesia.
  • Lin Foxhall, University of Leicester
    Lin Foxhall is Professor of Greek Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester (UK). She has carried out fieldwork in both Greece and Italy, where she has worked extensively on agriculture and rural settlement as well as ancient craft production.
  • Sturt Manning, Cornell University
    Sturt Manning is Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology and Director of the Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology at Cornell University (Ithaca, USA). A specialist in absolute chronologies and palaeoclimate, he has carried out extensive fieldwork in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Published

2014-06-06

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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2014)

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Discussion and Debate

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Broodbank, C., Barker, G., Foxhall, L., & Manning, S. (2014). Reviewing Cyprian Broodbank’s The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 27(1), 101-125. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.v27i1.101