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Blog Post #60: Ephemeral Heritage of Contemporary Mediterranean Displacement with Elizabeth S. Greene and Justin Leidwanger

In the final instalment of Peopling the Past’s Migration Month Blog Series, Elizabeth S. Greene (Brock University) and Justin Leidwanger (Stanford University) discuss fieldwork undertaken under the auspices of the Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project (MMHP) alongside Leopoldo Repola (Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples). This fieldwork documents and makes visible the “ephemeral heritage” encompassed by seagoing vessels used to carry displaced peoples across the Central Mediterranean, including the various objects left behind.

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Gameboard and gaming pieces from an 18th Dynasty tomb in Abydos, Egypt (Cemetery D, Tomb D99). The gameboard and pieces are made of wood and blue faience, a glass-like material made of ground quartz. The board can be laid out to play two different games, Senet (shown in the image) and 20 Squares (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 01.4.1a).

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We won an award! Thank you to the Classical Association of Canada for recognizing the work of the Peopling the Past team and awarding us with the “Elaine Fantham Award for Public Engagement” 🥳 🚨 Announcement time🚨 #PeoplingPodcast is BACK for a third season on May 31st with a very exciting topic: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean! Can't wait until May 31st? Well, the teaser trailer dropped TODAY! In the final instalment of the #PeoplingBlog #Ancient Migration series, Elizabeth S. Greene (@brockuniversity) and Justin Leidwanger (Stanford University) discuss the “ephemeral heritage” made visible by seagoing vessels used to carry displaced people across the Central #Mediterranean. In today’s #PeoplingBlog, Jana Mokrišová discusses her dissatisfaction with the proposition that the social upheaval following the fall of Bronze Age palatial centers was the result of a singular migration event at a particular point in time; and argues that this region can instead be characterized by protracted, relatively low-intensity movement of small groups between western Anatolia and the Aegean. In today’s #PeoplingBlog, Catherine M. Cameron discusses her use of modern ethnographic accounts as a way of understanding captives and captive-taking in prehistoric small-scale societies. Catherine uses ethnohistory in order to reconstruct how captives were taken, how they fit in to their captor’s societies, and the effects they had on those societies; and she argues that understanding the role of captives in cultural transmission can help transform our conceptions of the permeability of social boundaries and the nature of migrants in the past. Happy Friday Folks! It’s a new month, and a new theme over on the #PeoplingBlog! We have some bonus #PeoplingBlog content for you today! In today’s instalment of the #PeoplingBlog, Dr. Debra Trusty continues our March gaming series by discussing her use of ‘@assassinscreed_us Odyssey: Discovery Tour’ within a First-Year seminar course on ‘Video Games and the Ancient World’ at @uiowa. Through this course, students were encouraged to develop skills in academic inquiry, active learning, community and connectedness, and exploration of identity in a fun, interactive, and creative way.

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