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This NBC reviews several volumes that consider the archaeology of islands and maritime subsistence in prehistory. Islands have frequently been viewed as isolated, marginal places where survival is a challenge compared with the more accessible and well-resourced mainland. The volumes under review ask us to reconsider such concepts of marginality, and to reassess the nature of places, such as islands, that have been considered isolated and which can appear-the modern eye at least-challenging to inhabit. This approach continues a growing trend, seen, for example, in the publication since 2006 of the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, which attempts to resituate islands in their archaeological context and to centre them in their sphere of influence. Over a decade ago, Boomert & Bright (2007: 18) argued that rather than pursuing an 'island archaeology', which necessarily isolates the geographical subject, a better approach might be "an archaeology of maritime identity". Similarly, Helen Dawson (2019: 451) has called for "a reconceptualization of marginality, focusing on an island's in-betweenness rather than isolation". In this NBC, we examine the extent to which recent volumes focusing on islands reflect this research agenda.
This NBC reviews several volumes that consider the archaeology of islands and maritime subsistence in prehistory. Islands have frequently been viewed as isolated, marginal places where survival is a challenge compared with the more accessible and well-resourced mainland. The volumes under review ask us to reconsider such concepts of marginality, and to reassess the nature of places, such as islands, that have been considered isolated and which can appear-the modern eye at least-challenging to inhabit. This approach continues a growing trend, seen, for example, in the publication since 2006 of the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, which attempts to resituate islands in their archaeological context and to centre them in their sphere of influence. Over a decade ago, Boomert & Bright (2007: 18) argued that rather than pursuing an 'island archaeology', which necessarily isolates the geographical subject, a better approach might be "an archaeology of maritime identity". Similarly, Helen Dawson (2019: 451) has called for "a reconceptualization of marginality, focusing on an island's in-betweenness rather than isolation". In this NBC, we examine the extent to which recent volumes focusing on islands reflect this research agenda.
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