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    Maritime archaeology in the eastern mediterranean: approaches, perspectives, and histories
    (Penn State University Press, 2018) N/A; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Harpster, Matthew Benjamin; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 274179
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    Maritime networks in the ancient Mediterranean world
    (Springer, 2020) N/A; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Harpster, Matthew Benjamin; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 274179
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    Using polygons to model maritime movement in antiquity
    (Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, 2019) Chapman, Henry; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Harpster, Matthew Benjamin; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 274179
    With a goal of understanding and visualizing the shifting concentrations of movement across the Mediterranean Sea on a centennial basis, the MISAMS (Modeling Inhabited Spaces of the Ancient Mediterranean Sea) Project developed a new GIS-based interpretive methodology that collates and superimposes a series of polygons to model densities of maritime activity in the Mediterranean Sea from the 7th century BC to the 7th century AD. After discussing the project's use of place, space, and maritime landscapes as a theoretical background, this paper explains this new methodology then demonstrates and tests results representing activity in the 1st-century BC western-Mediterranean basin. These results, apparently manifesting distinct socially-constructed places, suggest that this new approach creates new opportunities to understand the movement of people and goods across the Mediterranean in the past, and the varying uses and perceptions of maritime space in antiquity. As this method requires a dense and well-studied corpora of archaeological data, it is theoretically applicable to other maritime regions that have (or will have) the appropriate dataset, and may represent a new research agenda in maritime archaeology.
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    Sicily: a frontier in the centre of the sea?
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2019) N/A; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Harpster, Matthew Benjamin; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 274179
    As part of the Ancient Maritime Dynamics project, this study uses a new interpretive methodology to model the creation and use of maritime places in the western-Mediterranean basin. In turn, the results of this modelling suggest that the waters around the island of Sicily acted as a frontier, distinguishing a distinct zone of activity in the western Mediterranean as well as a western maritime community that segregated itself from other sailors and merchants elsewhere in the sea.
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    Maritime archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean: approaches, perspectives, and histories
    (Penn State Univ Press, 2018) N/A; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Harpster, Matthew Benjamin; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 274179
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