The Global Mediterranean of the Iron Age: Interview with Professor Tamar Hodos

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Iron Age Mediterranean's new density of connections between people and places was about more than the economy and trade; it also remade the culture of the whole region, bringing new ideas and practices - such as wine-drinking and the alphabet - across its entire expanse. Professor Tamar Hodos is one of the world's leading experts on the Iron Age Mediterranean, and she joins me to talk about archaeology, globalization, and the tools we can use to understand the past.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:18.2	Hi everybody, from Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:21.6	It is great to have you all here and thanks for joining me.
0:25.1	The Mediterranean Iron Age marked a pivotal turning point in the long history of the region.
0:29.6	Greeks and Phoenicians set out from their homelands to build new colonies and open new trade routes,
0:33.9	riding spread across the Mediterranean along with the olive and the vine,
0:37.2	the major players that would define the classical era at the time with which we're all more familiar came into their own.
0:42.9	In short, the Iron Age was the time when the Mediterranean became the Mediterranean that we recognized,
0:47.4	the center of so many of the driving historical processes of the last several millennia.
0:52.4	But how and why did that happen?
0:54.5	And how should we understand such a massive sweeping and confusing set of times, places and events?
1:00.2	Nobody is better suited to helping us grasp these things than today's guest.
1:04.0	Tom Arhotos is professor of Mediterranean archaeology at the University of Bristol.
1:08.2	She is one of the world's leading experts on the archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age
1:12.0	with decades of experience in fieldwork and particular emphasis in mobility, colonization,
1:16.3	globalization, and the construction of identities, all topics near and dear to my heart.
1:21.0	She has written a ton of articles in book chapters and her most recent book is the archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age,
1:26.7	a globalizing world circa 1100 to 600 BCE, which I found incredibly useful for thinking through this period.
1:33.0	Professor Hoto, thank you so much for joining me.
1:35.7	Thank you so much for having me.
1:37.5	So what got you interested in archaeology and general and in the archaeology of the Mediterranean in the Iron Age in particular?
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