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Director:Lorenzo Nigro
External links:
https://sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/peoplesofthemiddlesea-prin2017/home-page
The project aims at disentangling the relationship between the spread of ideological, technological and social innovations and integration of different cultures in the ancient Mediterranean in the time span 1600-500 BCE. The transmission of inventions and innovations (e.g. the alphabet, the potter’s wheel, the concept of the city) triggered cultural mix-up and hybridization, and, vice-versa the integration of different groups favoured the birth of new ideas, models and enterprises.
The flame of civilization enlightening the Mediterranean from the Levant to the West (“Ex Oriente Lux”) has been a powerful historical paradigm, which the Project overthrows. Recent discoveries in the Iberian Peninsula, the Baleares, Sardinia, Sicily, Southern Italy, North Africa, and Malta have shown that these Lands hosted original and complex cultures and that the interaction with the East was basically bi-directional. A well-integrated team of experts of different periods and disciplines (SH/PE/LS), under the coordination of a leading scholar in Mediterranean and Levantine archaeology, starting from a solid archaeological Databank, and applying refined PE and LS approaches, will explain the progressive formation of the Mediterranean civilization, its most typical features and deepest origins.
Collaborators:
Prof. Michele Guirguis (Università di Sassari), Dr. Ida Oggiano (CNR-ISPC), Prof. Salvatore De Vincenzo (Università della Tuscia)
- Bibliography
Nigro, L.
2024 People of the Middle Sea. Innovation and Integration in Ancient Mediterranean (1600-500 BC), Vicino Oriente XXVIII N.S.
Further details about this research:
- Research type: Research project PRIN
- Research topic: PRIN 2017
- Fundings: PRIN 2017