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 SocietiesAssaf Yasur-Landau, Gil Gambash, and Thomas E. Levy 2. Micro-Geoarchaeology: An Essential Component in the Detection and Decipherment of Resilience, Collapse, and AdaptationRuth Shahack-Gross, University of Haifa 3. A Multi-Method Approach for Studying Environmental-Human Interaction: A Case Study from Dor, the Carmel Coast in IsraelGilad Shtienberg (University of California, San Diego) and Michael Lazar (University of Haifa)4. The Maritime Neolithic: An Evaluation of Marine Adaptation in Eastern Mediterranean PrehistoryChelsea 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 RevisitedPhilipp W. Stockhammer, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich 8. A Twelfth-Century BCE Shipwreck Assemblage Containing Copper Ingots, from Neve-Yam, IsraelEhud 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 QuestionsEric H. Cline, The George Washington University 10. Anthropogenic Erosion from Hellenistic to Recent Times in the Northern Gulf of Corinth, GreeceKatrina 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 AntiquityGil Gambash 13. Collapses and Renascences: What the Maya and the Old World Have in CommonGeoffrey E. Braswell, University of California, San Diego