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Definite places, translocal exchange : an introduction / Anders Bjørkelo, Jørgen Christian Meyer, Eivind Heldaas Selind -- What happened in the Near East ca 2000 BC? / David Alan Warburton -- Sumhuram : a Hadrami port on the Indian Ocean / Alessandra Avanzini -- Strabo and the eastern desert of Egypt and Sudan / Richard Holton Pierce -- Water harvesting in the Eastern Desert of Egypt / Jonatan Krzywinski -- Roman coins as a source for Roman trading activites in the Indian Ocean / Jørgen Christian Meyer -- Ports, Ptolemy, Periplus, and poetry : Romans in Tamil, South India and on the Bay of Bengal / Eivind Heldaas Selind -- Early Indian Ocean trade with Zanzibar : archaeological evidence / Else Johansen Kleppe

A recent surge of interest in network approaches to the study of the ancient world has enabled scholars of the Roman Empire to move beyond traditional narratives of domination, resistance, integration and fragmentation. This relational turn has not only offers tools to identify, map, visualize and, in some cases, even quantify interaction based on a variety of ancient source material, but also provides a terminology to deal with the everyday ties of power, trade, and ideology that operated within, below, and beyond the superstructure of imperial rule. Thirteen contributions employ a range of quantitative, qualitative and descriptive network approaches in order to provide new perspectives on trade, communication, administration, technology, religion and municipal life in the Roman Near East and adjacent regions

The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which has emerged in the last two decades in the form of archaeological findings, as well as new techniques such as GIS modeling, the authors collectively demonstrate the existence of a very early global maritime trade. From architecture to cuisine, and language to clothing, evidence points to early connections both within Asia and between Asia and other continents—well before European explorations of the Global South. The human stories presented here offer insights into both the extent and limits of this global exchange, showing how goods and people traveled vast distances, how they were embedded in regional networks, and how local cultures were shaped as a result