two decades in the past one of many editors of this quantity, John Cherry of the collage of Michigan, seemed ahead to an afternoon while the 'Frogs around the Pond' (active extensive survey initiatives operating round the Mediterranean) may well produce actual insights into the improvement of human societies by way of evaluating and synthesizing the information that they had amassed. regardless of the theoretical advances in survey technique which have been mentioned and carried out on account that that date, few students (with the exception of Sue Alcock, the opposite editor - additionally at Michigan) have tried to exploit survey facts to reply to the genuine questions social historians were asking. during this quantity a few popular students re-commit to the unique target of extensive survey tasks and speak about what unique insights over two decades of survey paintings have dropped at our figuring out of the Mediterranean international. Contents: creation (Susan E. Alcock and John F. Cherry); Intraregional and interregional comparability of career histories in 3 Italian areas; the RPC venture (Peter Attema and Martijn van Leusen); A comparative point of view on payment trend and inhabitants swap in Mesoamerican and Mediterranean civilizations (Richard E. Blanton); web site through website: Combining survey and excavation information to chart styles of socio-political switch in Bronze Age Crete (Tim Cunningham and Jan Driessen); Are the landscapes of Greek prehistory hidden? A comparative method (Jack L. Davis); Accounting for ARS: fineware and websites in Sicily and Africa (Elizabeth Fentress, Sergio Fontana, Robert Bruce Hitchner, and Philip Perkins); Mapping and manuring: will we examine sherd density figures? (Michael Given); Mapping the Roman global: the contribution of box survey information (David Mattingly and Rob Witcher); Demography and survey (Robin Osborne); difficulties and probabilities in comparative survey: a North African viewpoint (David L. Stone); pattern measurement issues! the anomaly of worldwide traits and native surveys (Nicola Terrenato); Side-by-Side and Back-to-Front: Exploring intra-regional Latitudinal and Longitudinal comparison in survey information. 3 case reports from Metaponto, Southern Italy (Stephen Thompson); fixing the puzzle of the archaeological labyrinth: time perspectivism in Mediterranean floor archaeology (LuAnn Wandsnider); From nucleation to dispersal: tendencies in cost trend within the northern Fertile Crescent (T. J. Wilkinson, Jason Ur, and Jesse Casana); Comparative payment styles throughout the Bronze Age within the northeastern Peloponnesos (James C. Wright); Appendix. web assets for Mediterranean nearby survey tasks: a initial directory (Jennifer Gates, Susan E. Alcock, and John F. Cherry).