Tamar Hodos is Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Bristol. She is a world-leading authority on the archaeology of the Mediterranean's Iron Age. She is the author of Local Responses to Colonisation in the Iron Age Mediterranean (2006), co-editor of Material Culture and Social Identities in the Ancient World (2010), and The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization (2018).

• 1. Interpreting the Mediterranean; 2. Chronologies and Histories; 3. The Movement of People; 4. Contacts and Exchanges; 5. Urbanisation; 6. Written Words; 7. Conclusions.

'I would recommend the volume to anyone who wants a wide-scope analysis of the Iron Age in the Mediterranean. It contains material that is useful to postgraduates and graduate students, but it is also written clearly enough to be used in lower-level classes. It would make a great addition to any class that wants to break out of the single-culture-centric viewpoint.' David B. Small, American Journal of Archaeology