In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the
Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …

Most early sedentary villages (c. 1500–500 BCE) in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, were
situated on or near well-watered land. Around 500 BCE, a new hilltop center, Monte Albán …

How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions From around 700 BCE
until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through …

This is the first comprehensive account of the population of classical Athens for almost a
century. The methodology of earlier scholars has been criticised in general terms but their …

The growth of cities in antiquity is paradoxical: before modern health and sanitation
standards, early urban dwellers suffered high mortality as a result of epidemics and chronic …

Over the past decades, the disciplinary boundaries between Roman history and
archaeology have begun to fade, as archaeological proxy data started playing an important …

The variability among cities, from the ancient world to the present, can be organized usefully
in two ways. First, a focus on the dominant urban activities and processes leads to the …

The debate on Global Warming and the concerns about the impact of Global Warming on
future society have sparked interest in past climate change and its impact on past societies …

Over the past decade, several publications, amongst which most prominently the
monograph published by Kyle Harper in 2017, have argued that climate change was a …

In this article we use pollen data from six sites in southern Greece to study long-term
vegetation change in this region from 1000 BCE to 600 CE. Based on insights from …