ABSTRACT
My broad aim with this chapter is to use several connotations of ‘space and time’ in the humanities as windows into challenges and prospects for utilizing the remarkable archaeological evidence of ancient Mediterranean cultures to create “integrative conceptual and analytic frameworks” (Hadji and Souvatzi, in this volume, henceforth HS), for studying conjunctures in long-term and large-scale processes from perspectives offered by local contexts. Emphasis falls on interdisciplinary, historical, and interpretive connotations of space and time, which contribute to the variety among the chapters in the volume and relate to prospects for integrating contextual and comparative perspectives. I will conclude with some suggestions about areas of overlap between recent innovations in classical studies and Mediterranean prehistoric archaeology.
