Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean
Madrid, Spain, 18-20 September 2008
This conference will seek to explore the contribution of maritime
archaeology to the understanding of trade and exchange in the region
of the ancient Mediterranean. Papers will examine issues such as sea
routes and trade patterns, the links between shipwrecks and the
ancient economy and between land-based archaeology and maritime
commerce. The conference will also concentrate on the evidence from
ports and shipwrecks and their connections with wider Mediterranean
trading networks. Finally there will be a special session devoted to
Egyptian production, ports and trading routes.
For more information see: http://www.ocma.ox.ac.uk/events
SESSIONS AND SPEAKERS
Session 1: Maritime archaeology and trade
1. Prof. Josep Padró
Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona
The maritime commerce between the eastern and western Mediterranean
between 1200 and 200
2. Prof. Andrew Wilson
All Souls College and Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Maritime trade from 200 BC – 1000 AD
3. Prof. Pascal Arnaud
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Nice, University Nice – Sophia Antipolis
Ancient sea-routes and trade patterns
4. Prof. Elizabeth Green
Department of Classics, Brock University
Eastern Mediterranean Interconnections: From Shipwrecks to Models of an Archaic Economy
5. Dr Sean Kingsley
Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, University of Reading
Please mind the Gap: the ‘Byzlamic’ maritime revolution in Israel
6. Prof. Jaime Alvar and Dr Mirella Romero
Department of History, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Underwater archaeology in Spain and the history of ancient seafaring
Session 2: Ports, trade and maritime connectivity
7. Franck Goddio
European Institute of Underwater Archaeology
The harbours of the Alexandrian coast (Heracleion-Thonis and Alexandria)
8. Dr Rocío Gutiérrez
Coordinadora General de Museos, Melilla
Russadir-Melilla and the Mediterranean in the Punic period
9. Dr Josephine Quinn
Worcester College and Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
Coastal Connectivity in Hellenistic North Africa
10. Prof. Cheryl Ward
Department of Anthropology, Florida State University
Pirates, vintners and lumberjacks in Rough Cilicia
11. Prof. John Oleson
Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria
Technology, innovation and trade: Research on the engineering
characteristics of Roman maritime concrete
12. Candace Vaden
Exeter College, University of Oxford
Connectivity and Ports
13. Katia Schörle
St Cross College, University of Oxford
Constructing port hierarchies: harbours as indicators of global and
local interconnectivity
14. Benjamin Russell
Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Lapis transmarinus: stone-carrying ships and the maritime distribution
of stone in the Roman Empire
15. Karen Heslin
Merton College, University of Oxford
Approaching the Roman Wine Trade from the Mediterranean Hinterland: A
Study of Dolia Shipwrecks
16. Dr Theodore Papaioannou
St John’s College, University of Oxford
A reconstruction of the maritime trade patterns originating from
western Asia Minor during Late Antiquity, on the basis of ceramic
evidence
17. Prof. Robert Hohlfelder
Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder
Maritime Connectivity in Late Antique Lycia: a Tale of Two Cities,
Aperlae and Andriake
Session 3: Egyptian maritime trade
18. Dr Francisco Martín Valentín
Director of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Egypt, Madrid
Egyptian commerce with the eastern Mediterranean in the time of Amen-
hotep III and Aj-en-aton
19. Dr David Fabre
European Institute of Underwater Archaeology
The organisation of maritime trade in Ancient Egypt: The example of
Heracleion-Thonis
20. Dr María Antonia García Martínez
Tamkang University of Taipei and Alcalá University, Madrid
Egyptian influence on the Atlantic Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula
in the pre-Roman periods
21. Julian Whitewright and Dr Lucy Blue
Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton
Production for export: the evidence from around Lake Mariotis
22. Teresa Bedman
Institute for the Study of Ancient Egypt, Madrid
The trade relations during the reign of Hatshepsut: the expedition to
the Punt
Madrid, Spain, 18-20 September 2008
This conference will seek to explore the contribution of maritime
archaeology to the understanding of trade and exchange in the region
of the ancient Mediterranean. Papers will examine issues such as sea
routes and trade patterns, the links between shipwrecks and the
ancient economy and between land-based archaeology and maritime
commerce. The conference will also concentrate on the evidence from
ports and shipwrecks and their connections with wider Mediterranean
trading networks. Finally there will be a special session devoted to
Egyptian production, ports and trading routes.
For more information see: http://www.ocma.ox.ac.uk/events
SESSIONS AND SPEAKERS
Session 1: Maritime archaeology and trade
1. Prof. Josep Padró
Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona
The maritime commerce between the eastern and western Mediterranean
between 1200 and 200
2. Prof. Andrew Wilson
All Souls College and Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Maritime trade from 200 BC – 1000 AD
3. Prof. Pascal Arnaud
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Nice, University Nice – Sophia Antipolis
Ancient sea-routes and trade patterns
4. Prof. Elizabeth Green
Department of Classics, Brock University
Eastern Mediterranean Interconnections: From Shipwrecks to Models of an Archaic Economy
5. Dr Sean Kingsley
Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, University of Reading
Please mind the Gap: the ‘Byzlamic’ maritime revolution in Israel
6. Prof. Jaime Alvar and Dr Mirella Romero
Department of History, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Underwater archaeology in Spain and the history of ancient seafaring
Session 2: Ports, trade and maritime connectivity
7. Franck Goddio
European Institute of Underwater Archaeology
The harbours of the Alexandrian coast (Heracleion-Thonis and Alexandria)
8. Dr Rocío Gutiérrez
Coordinadora General de Museos, Melilla
Russadir-Melilla and the Mediterranean in the Punic period
9. Dr Josephine Quinn
Worcester College and Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
Coastal Connectivity in Hellenistic North Africa
10. Prof. Cheryl Ward
Department of Anthropology, Florida State University
Pirates, vintners and lumberjacks in Rough Cilicia
11. Prof. John Oleson
Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria
Technology, innovation and trade: Research on the engineering
characteristics of Roman maritime concrete
12. Candace Vaden
Exeter College, University of Oxford
Connectivity and Ports
13. Katia Schörle
St Cross College, University of Oxford
Constructing port hierarchies: harbours as indicators of global and
local interconnectivity
14. Benjamin Russell
Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Lapis transmarinus: stone-carrying ships and the maritime distribution
of stone in the Roman Empire
15. Karen Heslin
Merton College, University of Oxford
Approaching the Roman Wine Trade from the Mediterranean Hinterland: A
Study of Dolia Shipwrecks
16. Dr Theodore Papaioannou
St John’s College, University of Oxford
A reconstruction of the maritime trade patterns originating from
western Asia Minor during Late Antiquity, on the basis of ceramic
evidence
17. Prof. Robert Hohlfelder
Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder
Maritime Connectivity in Late Antique Lycia: a Tale of Two Cities,
Aperlae and Andriake
Session 3: Egyptian maritime trade
18. Dr Francisco Martín Valentín
Director of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Egypt, Madrid
Egyptian commerce with the eastern Mediterranean in the time of Amen-
hotep III and Aj-en-aton
19. Dr David Fabre
European Institute of Underwater Archaeology
The organisation of maritime trade in Ancient Egypt: The example of
Heracleion-Thonis
20. Dr María Antonia García Martínez
Tamkang University of Taipei and Alcalá University, Madrid
Egyptian influence on the Atlantic Littoral of the Iberian Peninsula
in the pre-Roman periods
21. Julian Whitewright and Dr Lucy Blue
Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Southampton
Production for export: the evidence from around Lake Mariotis
22. Teresa Bedman
Institute for the Study of Ancient Egypt, Madrid
The trade relations during the reign of Hatshepsut: the expedition to
the Punt