Stories of Globalisation: The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to Early Modernity: Selected Papers of Red Sea P

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Red Sea VII conference (Napels, 2015) entitled The Red Sea and the Gulf: Two Maritime Alternative Routes in the Development of Global Economy, from Late Prehistory to Modern Times. The Red Sea and the Gulf are geographically and environmentally similar and complementary, but also competitors in their economic and cultural interactions with the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. The chapters of the volume are grouped in three sections, corresponding to the various historical periods. Each chapter of the book offers the reader the opportunity to travel across the regions of the Red Sea and the Gulf, from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, and from prehistorical times to the contemporary era.

With contributions by: Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman, Serena Autiero, Mahmoud S. Bashir, Kathryn A. Bard, Alemseged Beldados, Ioana A. Dumitru, Serena Esposito, Rodolfo Fattovich, Luigi Gallo, Michal Gawlikowski, Bruno Genito, Caterina Giostra, Sunil Gupta, Michael Harrower, Martin Hense, Linda Huli, Sarah Japp, Serena Massa, Ralph K. Pedersen, Jacke S. Phillips, Patrice Pomey, Joanna K. Rądkowska, Adriano Rossi, Mike Schnelle, Lucy Semaan, Steven E. Sidebotham, Shadia Taha, Husna Taha Elatta, Joanna Then-Obluska and Iwona Zych

Andrea Manzo is Professor of Archaeology of the Nile valley, Nubian and Ethiopian Archaeology at the University ＂L’Orientale＂, Napels, and visiting Professor at Addis Ababa University. He has almost 30 years of fieldwork experience in Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia. The archaeology and history of the marginal areas, man-environment relations, long distance trade, the cross-acculturation and emergence of social hierarchy in North-east Africa and the Red Sea are his main research interests.

Chiara Zazzaro teaches Maritime Archaeology at the University ＂L’Orientale＂, Napels. In 2006 she defended her PhD thesis about ancient maritime contacts along the African coast of the Red Sea. Since 2001 her research focuses on the study of ancient and traditional boatbuilding techniques, harbours and ports, navigation techniques and coastal environments, particularly in the Red Sea and Gulf area.

Diana Joyce de Falco is a PhD candidate in Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies at the University ＂L’Orientale＂, Naples. Her research focuses on Jewish cultural heritage in Italy. She has worked as an assistant curator on several exhibitions and as a cataloguer of Jewish cultural heritage in Southern Italy.