The maritime world of the early Bronze Age Levant through space and time
This thesis focuses on the maritime signature of the Early Bronze Age (EBA) period on the Levantine coast. It assumes the sea as the common denominator that bridges the southern, central and northern coastal Levantine sub regions. Maritime activities and their subsequent role in EBA developments are rarely acknowledged in EBA scholarship. This thesis aims to rectify this imbalance by investigating how maritime space was lived and exploited during the EBA on the Levantine coast. It does so by establishing a theoretical framework that bridges land and sea, and is flexible to adapt to variable spatial and temporal scales. The theoretical framework at the basis of this thesis is a relational and lived space and time that is heterogeneous and of manifolds. Space and time in this research are a mode of engagement with the archaeological record, manifesting practically through the methodology of thirding-as-othering with mapping, in other words, mediation with mapping. The methodology unfolds in three intertwined and connected themes of mapping land, mapping maritime activities and mapping the sea. Each one of these themes reveals folds and manifestations of the lived maritime space and time during the EBA on the
El Safadi, Crystal
The maritime world of the early Bronze Age Levant through space and time. This thesis focuses on the maritime signature of the Early Bronze Age (EBA) period on the Levantine coast. It assumes the sea as the common denominator that bridges the southern, central and northern coastal Levantine sub regions. Maritime activities and their subsequent role in EBA developments are rarely acknowledged in EBA scholarship. This thesis aims to rectify this imbalance by investigating how maritime space was lived and exploited during the EBA on the Levantine coast. It does so by establishing a theoretical framework that bridges land and sea, and is flexible to adapt to variable spatial and temporal scales. The theoretical framework at the basis of this thesis is a relational and lived space and time that is heterogeneous and of manifolds. Space and time in this research are a mode of engagement with the archaeological record, manifesting practically through the methodology of thirding-as-othering with mapping, in other words, mediation with mapping. The methodology unfolds in three intertwined and connected themes of mapping land, mapping maritime activities and mapping the sea. Each one of these themes reveals folds and manifestations of the lived maritime space and time during the EBA on the
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