{"product_id":"9781785704741","title":"Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World","description":"Twenty years ago one of the editors of this volume, John Cherry  of the University of Michigan, looked forward to a day when  the 'Frogs round the Pond' (active intensive survey projects  working around the Mediterranean) could produce real insights  into the development of human societies by comparing and  synthesizing the data they had collected. Despite the theoretical  advances in survey methodology that have been discussed and  implemented since that date, few scholars (with the exception of  Sue Alcock, the other editor - also at Michigan) have attempted  to use survey data to answer the real questions social historians  have been asking. In this volume a number of prominent scholars  re-commit to the original goal of intensive survey projects and  discuss what original insights over twenty years of survey work  have brought to our understanding of the Mediterranean world.  Contents: Introduction (Susan E. Alcock and John F. Cherry);  Intraregional and interregional comparison of occupation  histories in three Italian regions; the RPC project (Peter Attema  and Martijn van Leusen); A comparative perspective on settlement  pattern and population change in Mesoamerican and Mediterranean  civilizations (Richard E. Blanton);  Site by site: Combining  survey and excavation data to chart patterns of socio-political  change in Bronze Age Crete (Tim Cunningham and Jan Driessen); Are  the landscapes of Greek prehistory hidden?  A comparative  approach (Jack L. Davis); Accounting for ARS: fineware and sites  in Sicily and Africa (Elizabeth Fentress, Sergio Fontana, Robert  Bruce Hitchner, and Philip Perkins); Mapping and manuring: can we  compare sherd density figures? (Michael Given); Mapping the Roman  world: the contribution of field survey data (David Mattingly and  Rob Witcher); Demography and survey (Robin Osborne); Problems and  possibilities in comparative survey: a North African perspective (David L. Stone);  Sample size matters! The paradox of global trends and local  surveys (Nicola Terrenato); Side-by-Side and Back-to-Front:   Exploring intra-regional Latitudinal and Longitudinal  comparability in survey data.  Three case studies from Metaponto,  Southern Italy (Stephen Thompson); Solving the puzzle of the  archaeological labyrinth: time perspectivism in Mediterranean  surface archaeology (LuAnn Wandsnider); From nucleation to  dispersal: trends in settlement pattern in the northern Fertile  Crescent (T. J. Wilkinson, Jason Ur, and Jesse Casana);  Comparative settlement patterns during the Bronze Age in the  northeastern Peloponnesos (James C. Wright); Appendix.  Internet  resources for Mediterranean regional survey projects: a  preliminary listing (Jennifer Gates, Susan E. Alcock, and John F.  Cherry).","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182272790768,"sku":"9781785704741","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785704741_p0.jpg?v=1763728135","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785704741","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}