ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am very grateful to John Cherry for many hours’ conversation on the trajectories of Mediterranean island prehistory and its place within the wider project of island and coastal archaeology. I am indebted both to John and to Christina Giovas for insightful and helpful suggestions on a first draft of this essay. I would finally like to thank Christina and the other two editors of the Journal for encouraging me to write such a review in the first place. Clearly, none of the former are implicated in any of the opinions expressed here.