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Hi everybody, from Wondery Welcome to another episode of Tides of History.

It is great to have you all here and thanks for joining me.

One of the best parts of studying the ancient world beyond the usual suspects, Greeks and

Romans, for example, is that you quickly realize just how many other people there were inhabiting

that world.

Most of those societies, which were no less sophisticated or interesting than the ones

that received top billing, have either been forgotten or overlooked.

It's a shame for a lot of reasons, not least because everybody deserves to be remembered

in some way, but also because it does a tremendous disservice to our understanding of that world

and how it actually worked.

The kinds of ancient societies that tend to get shunted to the side as bystanders tend

to be rural rather than urban, indigenous rather than colonizing, non literate or without

surviving writing rather than part of the classical corpus of texts.

The Western Mediterranean of the Iron Age and early part of the classical period was

full of societies like this, and one of the best investigated of them was on the island

of Sardinia.

Today's guest is an expert on those less renowned but no less fascinating societies and how all

of them interacted with one another in the ancient Mediterranean.

Peter Van Damolin is Jukowski, family professor of archaeology and professor of anthropology

and director of the Jukowski Institute for Archaeology in the Ancient World at Brown

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