14. A Place for the Local
Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean - (Volume 18) - Linda R. Gosner
Linda R. Gosner [+ ]
Texas Tech University
Linda R. Gosner is Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at Texas Tech University. Her research centers on local responses to Roman imperialism in rural and industrial landscapes of the Western Mediterranean. In particular, she studies the impact of empire on technology, craft production, labor practices, economies, and everyday life in provincial communities. Linda’s primary research and current book project examines the transformation of mining communities and landscapes in the Iberian Peninsula following Roman conquest. In addition to ongoing research and fieldwork in Spain and Portugal, Linda has co-directed the Sinis Archaeological Project in West-Central Sardinia since 2018 and worked as a core collaborator with the Progetto S’Urachi since 2013. Across these varied projects, Linda’s work engages with broad questions about human-environment interaction, community and identity, labor history, mobility, and culture contact. Linda holds a PhD from the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.
Jeremy Hayne [+ ]
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan
Jeremy Hayne is an independent researcher who also works at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. His research interests cover the western Mediterranean Iron Age and Classical and Phoenician/Punic periods, focusing on identity, culture contact, and gender. He is an active archaeologist currently working for the S’Urachi fieldwork project in western Sardinia. Recent publications have appeared in The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean (2019) and Babesch.
Description
This conclusion reiterates our main themes across the volume, including our foci on local experiences, on small scale and regional connectivity, and on bridging traditional research divides—chronological, national, and disciplinary. It concludes with a comment on the editorial decisions we made when putting together the volume and several suggestions for how local perspectives contribute to major research questions moving forward.