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Toronto. These two journals, with a strongly literary bent to
their articles, form something of a subset within the broader
sample. The other side of the world is represented by the
University of Sydney’s Mediterranean Archaeology: The Australian
and New Zealand Journal for the Archaeology of the
Mediterranean World. Publishers located in the United Kingdom
are responsible—apart from the aforementioned Mediterranean
Studies—for the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
(one of whose editors is in Scotland, the other in the United
States) and the Mediterranean Historical Review (with an all-
Israeli editorial team).
A sub-sample of the journals are produced somewhere ‘in’
the Mediterranean itself. The University of Malta has been
especially active, with that early Mediterranean Studies and
the more recent Journal of Mediterranean Studies: History,
Culture and Society in the Mediterranean World. Institutions
in Greece have produced the Journal of Mediterranean Anthropology
and Archaeology and now also Mediterranean Archaeology
& Archaeometry. Italy appears to offer only one relevant
print publication, Mediterraneo Antico: Economie, società, culture.
One possible harbinger for the future production of periodicals,
both in terms of medium and of multi-institutional
framework, is represented by the recently launched Mediterranean
Prehistory Online, an electronic journal funded under the
aegis of the European Commission and cyber-supported by
institutions in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Israel.
Finally, it is worth noting that—wherever based—almost
all of these journals are graced with editorial advisory committees
of impressively international flavour.
The language of the Mediterranean in this context is, by and
large, English—one demonstration of an increasing, if not always
comfortable, acquiescence in the use of English as a scholarly
lingua franca. Some variety does, however, remain in the
picture. Peuples Méditerranéens/Mediterranean Peoples and
Scripta Mediterranea are expressly bilingual in French and
English (including on their front covers), though the latter
publishes overwhelmingly in English; Mediterranean Prehistory
Online at least partially presents itself in English and Italian;
Mediterraneo Antico foregrounds Italian scholarship. In other
cases, contributions in European languages (French, German,