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

Tymon de Haas; Thomas Leppard; Jitte Waagen; Toby Wilkinson

doi:10.1558/jma.27148

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

Tymon de Haas, Thomas Leppard, Jitte Waagen, Toby Wilkinson

Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	127-137
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of mediterranean archaeology
Volume	36
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1558/jma.27148
Publication status	Published - 26-Oct-2023

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landscape archaeology
field survey
Mediterranean archaeology

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