ABSTRACT
Regional programs of archaeological survey have long offered a unique and important contribution to the scholarship on connectivity in the Mediterranean. In documenting the distribution of sites and artifacts across disparate landscapes, archaeological surveys record a snapshot of the orientation of particular regions toward broader networks of production, trade, and culture. The most basic and ubiquitous kinds of object recorded through survey—fragmented ceramic jars, amphorae, basins, pots, bowls, and plates—speak to questions about a region’s links to territories and provinces elsewhere. The sophisticated tools for quantifying, analyzing, and mapping survey data through databases and geospatial platforms, moreover, have established a basis for measuring changes in connectivity over time and space. Finally, the juxtaposition of different sets of survey data side-by-side highlights the differential access of regions, communities, and sites to the networks of distribution that passed the basic stuff of daily life across the corrupting seas.
