%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.