Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 An Archaeology of Interaction and Mobility; A changing sea: Social differentiation and the Mediterraneanthrough the lens of later globalization; What is interaction in archaeology?; A radical paradigm; Spatiality; Mediterranean Bronze Age Modes of Interaction; 2 The Southern Adriatic: Social Geography, Previous Studies and Prelude to Late Bronze Age Interaction; The southern Adriatic: Sea, land and Means of Interaction; Approaches to Adriatic connectivity; The prelude to Late Bronze Age interaction

3 Early EncountersThe individual community during the Middle Bronze Age; The Protoapennine and Apennine network; The wider Mediterranean context during the Middle Bronze Age; The Middle Bronze Age Adriatic society and its connections:Modes of Production and Interaction; 4 From Direct Contact to Brownian Motion: The Southern Adriatic during the Recent Bronze Age (1300-1100 bc); The individual community during the Recent Bronze Age; The small-scale network during the Recent Bronze Age; The wider Mediterranean context during the Recent Bronze Age

The southern Adriatic during the Recent Bronze Age:Modes of Production and Interaction5 Old Connections and New Equilibria at the End of the Southern Adriatic Bronze Age (1100-1000 bc); The individual community during the Final Bronze Age; The small-scale network during the Final Bronze Age; The wider Mediterranean context during theFinal Bronze Age; The Final Bronze Age in the southern Adriatic:Modes of Production and Interaction; 6 The Southern Adriatic and the Social Logic of Interaction; The southern Adriatic societies and the Mediterranean in thelongue durée

E pluribus unum, ex uno plures?The social logic of interaction: Then and now; Notes; References; Index