Myopic Misunderstandings? A Reply to Meyer (JMA 35(2), 2022)

Authors
  • Tymon de Haas
  • Tom P. Leppard
  • J. Waagen ORCID logo
  • Toby Wilkinson
Publication date 10-2023
Journal Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
Volume | Issue number 36 | 1
Pages (from-to) 127-137
Number of pages 11
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM)
Abstract
This paper engages with Nathan Meyer’s (2022) paper ‘Finding Sites in Mediterranean Survey’. Building upon longstanding critiques of Mediterranean survey practices, Meyer argues for a re-direction of survey practices. We feel that several of his core arguments reflect an unbalanced view on the role of site and off-site data in Mediterranean surveys, conflating intensive and siteless surveys. Moreover, while these critiques seem to us unnecessarily negative regarding the analytical potential of off-site data, they also reflect an overconfident attitude towards the use of site data for comparative purposes.
Document type Article
Note Reply to: N. Meyer (2022) Finding Sites in Mediterranean Survey. In: JMA, v. 35, iss.2, pp. 143-168.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1558/jma.27148
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