Research Areas

Iron Age and Roman archaeology and history; Western Mediterranean; technology, labor, and craft production; ancient economy; rural landscapes; archaeological method and theory

Biography

I am a Mediterranean archaeologist specializing in Iron age and Roman archaeology and social, economic, and environmental history. My research centers on local responses to Roman imperialism in rural and industrial landscapes of the western Mediterranean. I am especially interested in the impact of empire on technology, craft production, labor practices, and everyday life in provincial communities. My work engages with broad questions about human-environment interaction, community and identity, labor history, mobility, and culture contact. I am also a field archaeologist, and currently co-direct the Sinis Archaeological Project and collaborate with the Progetto S’Urachi in west-central Sardinia. 

Publications

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Edited Volume

Gosner, Linda R., and Jeremy Hayne, eds. 2024. Local Experiences of Connectivity and Mobility in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean. Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 18. Equinox Press. 

Articles

Gosner, Linda R., and Leena Ghannam. 2026. “The Punctuated Itineraries of Purple Porphyry.” World Archaeology 0 (0): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2026.2628321. (first view)

Plekhov, Daniel, Linda R. Gosner, and Jessica Nowlin. 2025. “Effects of Land-Use Intensity on Archaeological Survey.” Advances in Archaeological Practice, November 24, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2025.10103.

Gosner, Linda R. 2023. “Mining for Gold in Visigothic Iberia: Archaeological Perspectives on Economy, Landscape, and Labour.” Al-Masāq 35 (3): 271–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2023.2207161.

Gosner, Linda R., and Jessica Nowlin. 2023. “Approaching Interaction in Iron Age Sardinia: Multi-Scalar Survey Evidence from the Sinis Archaeological Project and the Progetto S’Urachi.” Open Archaeology 9 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0320.

Gosner, Linda R. 2022. “Coastal Resource Integration and Reuse in Iron Age South-Eastern Iberia: The Lead Ingots Cast from Pinna Nobilis Shells.” European Journal of Archaeology 25 (4): 504–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.24.

Gosner, Linda R. 2021. “Esparto Crafting under Empire: Local Technology and Imperial Industry in Roman Iberia.” Journal of Social Archaeology 21 (3): 329–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/14696053211016628.

Dufton, J. Andrew, Linda R. Gosner, Alex R. Knodell, and Catherine Steidl. 2019. “Archaeology Underfoot: On-Campus Approaches to Education, Outreach, and Historical Archaeology at Brown University.” Journal of Field Archaeology 44 (5). https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2019.1605123.