Mediterranean Resilience

Assaf Yasur-Landau is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology, Head of the Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies, founder of the Laboratory for Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey, and cofounder of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. Gil Gambash is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Haifa and cofounder and director of the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History. Thomas E. Levy is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division, Co-Director of the Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute and inaugural holder of the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. Assaf Yasur-Landau is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology, Head of the Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies, founder of the Laboratory for Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey, and cofounder of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. Gil Gambash is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Haifa and cofounder and director of the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History. Thomas E. Levy is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division, Co-Director of the Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute and inaugural holder of the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego. Assaf Yasur-Landau is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology, Head of the Recanati Institute of Maritime Studies, founder of the Laboratory for Coastal Archaeology and Underwater Survey, and cofounder of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. Gil Gambash is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Haifa and cofounder and director of the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History. Thomas E. Levy is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division, Co-Director of the Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability at the Qualcomm Institute and inaugural holder of the Norma Kershaw Chair in the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Neighboring Lands at the University of California, San Diego.

1. Introduction: Mediterranean Resilience, Collapse, and Adaptation in Antique Maritime Societies
Assaf Yasur-Landau, Gil Gambash, and Thomas E. Levy
2. Micro-Geoarchaeology: An Essential Component in the Detection and Decipherment of Resilience, Collapse, and Adaptation
Ruth Shahack-Gross, University of Haifa
3. A Multi-Method Approach for Studying Environmental-Human Interaction: A Case Study from Dor, the Carmel Coast in Israel
Gilad Shtienberg (University of California, San Diego) and Michael Lazar (University of Haifa)
4. The Maritime Neolithic: An Evaluation of Marine Adaptation in Eastern Mediterranean Prehistory
Chelsea Wiseman, Flinders University and University of Haifa
5. The Early Bronze I Coastal Settlements of Israel: A New Phenomenon or Part of a Long-Lived Settlement Tradition? Roey Nickelsberg (University of Haifa), Ruth Shahack-Gross, and Assaf Yasur-Landau
6. Cypriot Pottery as an Indicator of Adaptive Trade Networks Brigid Clark, University of Haifa
7. The Collapse of the Mycenaean Palaces Revisited
Philipp W. Stockhammer, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
8. A Twelfth-Century BCE Shipwreck Assemblage Containing Copper Ingots, from Neve-Yam, Israel
Ehud Galili (University of Haifa), Dafna Langgut (Tel Aviv University) , Ehud Arkin Shalev (University of Haifa), Baruch Rosen, Naama Yahalom-Mack (Hebrew University), Isaac Ogloblin Ramirez (University of Haifa), and Assaf Yasur-Landau
9. The Collapse of Cultures at the End of the Late Bronze Age in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean: New Developments, Punctuated Equilibrium, and Further Questions
Eric H. Cline, The George Washington University
10. Anthropogenic Erosion from Hellenistic to Recent Times in the Northern Gulf of Corinth, Greece
Katrina Cantu (University of California, San Diego), Richard Norris (University of California, San Diego), George Papatheodorou (University of Patras), Ioannis Liritzis (Henan University, China), Dafna Langgut, Maria Geraga (University of Patras), and Thomas E. Levy
11. Cultural Resilience in the Hellenistic Southern Levant Eleonora Bedin, University of Haifa
12. Negev Fragility and Mediterranean Prosperity in Late Antiquity
Gil Gambash
13. Collapses and Renascences: What the Maya and the Old World Have in Common
Geoffrey E. Braswell, University of California, San Diego