The Aegean today
1950 - present · Memory is a living thing
How to read this period
Covering 1950 - present, the The Aegean today dossier is a reading point within the long transformation of settlement, movement, production and belief networks across the Aegean. Memory is a living thing. Period boundaries are used to compare layers that changed at different speeds in different places, rather than to imply a clean historical break.
Records from the coast, valleys and inland areas are not reduced to one line of development. Region, place and narrative links are used to compare shared patterns with local differences.