Greek Colonies and Networks in the Iron Age: Interview with Dr. Lieve Donnellan
Tides of History
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The Importance of Networks in the Archaeological Record
A lot of the recent work on the Mediterranean has Mediterranean Greeks talking about concepts like interactions and networks. Peter Kussai: How do concepts like that offer us a better understanding of what we're seeing in the archaeological record than something like acculturation? Yes, this term influence of acculturation is very much tied to this perspective of colonization being a good thing. And again, looking critically at the archaeological record and questioning our old concepts, we see that the reality was much more complex.
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