Material Connections forges a new path in understanding the material culture of the Mediterranean and will be essential for those wishing to develop their understanding of material culture and identity in the Mediterranean.

1. Material connections: mobility, materiality and Mediterranean identities A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen 2.Classifying an oxymoron. On black boxes, materiality and identity in the scientific representation of the Mediterranean Carlos Cañete 3.Reproducing difference: mimesis and colonialism in Roman Hispania Alicia Jiménez 4.From colonisation to habitation: early cultural adaptations in the Balearic Bronze Age Damià Ramis 5.Social identities, materiality and connectivity in Early Bronze Age Crete Marina Gkiasta 6.Foreign materials, islander mobility and elite identity in Late Bronze Age Sardinia Anthony Russell 7.Negotiating island interactions: Cyprus, the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze to Early Iron Ages Sarah Janes 8.Entangled identities on Iron Age Sardinia? Jeremy Hayne 9.Iron, connectivity and local identities in the Iron Age to Classical Mediterranean Maria Kostoglou 10.Mobility, materiality and identities in Iron Age east Iberia: on the appropriation of material culture and the question of judgement Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz 11.Trading settlements and the materiality of wine consumption in the north Tyrrhenian Sea region Corinna Riva 12. Concluding thoughts Michael Rowlands