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localized. Again, the local needs to be understood in its larger context. This is an espe-
cially fruitful way of approaching such regions as the Black Sea and the Mediterranean,
where the tendency to look for events, particularly those that occur in both the archaeo-
logical record and the literary sources, may blind us to the broader patterns of continuity
and change over a vast area (Horden and Purcell 2000). WSA raises many useful
questions, that is, questions that when answered empirically increase our understanding.
Such findings are opportunities for emending WSA and for making contributions to
the cycle of theory→evidence→revised theory→new evidence, and so on. WSA also
provides one way of making inter-regional comparisons (see too, Jennings 2011). In
these ways, WSA scholars and scholars of the ancient Mediterranean can benefit from
mutual exchanges.
Acknowledgment
I thank Jeremy McInerney for inviting me to participate in the project, and for his many
useful suggestions about how to tailor my discussion for this audience. I also thank
Kristian Kristiansen, P. Nick Kardulias, and Susan Kepecs for critical readings of earlier
versions. As always, none of them are responsible for my errors, but are responsible for
saving me from several. Also thanks to William A. Parkinson for permission to reprint
Figure 4.1, which originally appeared in Parkinson and Galaty (2010: 59), and to West-
view Press for permission to reprint Figure 4.2, which first appeared in Chase-Dunn and
Hall (1997: 54).
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