%0 Journal Article
%A Riva, Corinna
%A Grau Mira, Ignasi
%D 2022
%F discovery:10144365
%I Cambridge University Press
%J Archaeological Dialogues
%K Big Data; non-classical Mediterranean; microhistory; multi-scalar analysis; urbanism; citizenship
%N 1
%P 1-14
%T Global archaeology and microhistorical analysis. Connecting scales in the 1st-milennium B.C. Mediterranean
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144365/
%V 29
%X Recently, voices have been raised regarding the challenges of Big Data-driven global approaches, including the realization that exclusively tackling the global scale masks social and historical realities. While multi-scalar analyses have confronted this problem, the effects of global approaches are being felt. We highlight one of these effects: as classical scholarship struggles to decolonize itself, the ancient Mediterranean in global archaeology pivots around the Graeco-Roman world only, marginalizing the non-classical Mediterranean, thus foiling attempts at promoting post-colonial perspectives. In highlighting this, our aim is twofold: first, to invigorate the debate on multi-scalar approaches, proposing to incorporate microhistory into archaeological analysis; second, to use the non-classical Mediterranean to demonstrate that historical depth at a micro level is essential to augment that power in our interpretations.
%Z This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.