Debating Orientalization - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 10 - Corinna Riva
Introduction
Debating Orientalization - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 10 - Corinna Riva
Nicholas C. Vella [+]
University of Malta
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Nicholas C. Vella is Senior Lecturer in Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta. His current research interests focus on the study of connectivity in the central Mediterranean at the end of the 2nd millennium BC, and on the development of archaeological traditions in the Mediterranean in the inter-war period. He co-directs two excavation projects in Malta and is co-director of the Belgo-Maltese Malta Survey Project. He is the co-editor (with Josephine Crawley Quinn) of Identifying the Punic Mediterranean (British School at Rome, forthcoming).
Corinna Riva [+]
University College London
Corinna Riva is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London. From 2000-2005 she was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, and served as temporary Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow in 2005-2006. Since 2002, she has been co-director of the Upper Esino Valley Survey (Marche, Italy). She is the author of The Urbanization of Etruria (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Description
The introduction presents the different contributors' approaches to the theme of Orientalization. It further traces the archaeological discoveries which led to the conception of the Orientalizing period in ancient (Greek) art history.