New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology / / ed. by Sturt W. Manning, Catherine Kearns.

• MitwirkendeR: Andreou, Georgia Marina,; Diakou, Stella,; Dikomitou-Eliadou, Maria,; Frankel, David,; Georgiou, Artemis,; Kearns, Catherine,; Manning, Sturt W.,; Monahan, Eilis,; Paraskeva, Charalambos,; Satraki, Anna,; Spigelman, Matthew,
• HerausgeberIn: Kearns, Catherine,; Manning, Sturt W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 22 b&w halftones, 34 maps, 31 charts

New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology highlights current scholarship that employs a range of new techniques, methods, and theoretical approaches to questions related to the archaeology of the prehistoric and protohistoric periods on the island of Cyprus. From revolutions in radiocarbon dating, to the compositional analysis of ceramic remains, to the digital applications used to study landscape histories at broad scales, to rethinking human-environment/climate interrelationships, the last few decades of research on Cyprus invite inquiry into the implications of these novel archaeological methods for the field and its future directions. This edited volume gathers together a new generation of scholars who offer a revealing exploration of these insights as well as challenges to big questions in Cypriot archaeology, such as the rise of social complexity, urban settlement histories, and changes in culture and identity. These enduring topics provide the foundation for investigating the benefits and challenges of twenty-first-century methods and conceptual frameworks. Divided into three main sections related to critical chronological transitions, from earliest prehistory to the development of autonomous kingdoms during the Iron Age, each contribution exposes and engages with a different advance in studies of material culture, absolute dating, paleoenvironmental analysis, and spatial studies using geographic information systems. From rethinking the chronological transitions of the Early Bronze Age, to exploring regional craft production regimes of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, to locating Iron Age cemeteries through archival topographic maps, these exciting and pioneering authors provide innovative ways of thinking about Cypriot archaeology and its relationship to the wider discipline.List of Contributors: Georgia M. Andreou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Classics, Cornell University Stella Diakou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus David Frankel, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University Artemis Georgiou, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus Catherine Kearns, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Chicago Sturt W. Manning, Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology, Cornell University Eilis Monahan, PhD Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University Charalambos Paraskeva, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus Anna Satraki, Director of Larnaka District Museum, Department of Antiquities of Cyprus Matthew Spigelman, ACME Heritage Consultants, Partner

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: New Directions in Method and Theory -- Keynote: Exploring Diversity in Bronze Age Cyprus -- PART I. The Context and Matter of Prehistory -- 1. The Middle Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age Chronology of Cyprus: Refinements and Reconstructions -- 2. The Fabric Next Door: A Comparative Study of Pottery Technology and Composition at the Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlements of Marki Alonia and Alambra Mouttes -- 3. Environment and Sociopolitical Complexity on Prehistoric Cyprus: Observations, Trajectories, and Sketch -- PART II. Bronze Age Complexities -- 4. Negotiating a New Landscape: Middle Bronze Age Fortresses as a Component of the Cypriot Political Assemblage -- 5. Gray Economics in Late Bronze Age Cyprus -- 6. Tracing the Foundation Horizon of Palaepaphos: New Research on the Early History of the Paphos Region -- PART III. Diachronic Landscapes -- 7. Alambra: From “A Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus” to a Royal District -- 8. The Archaeology of the North Coast of Cyprus: The Evidence from Lapithos -- 9. Discerning “Favorable” Environments: Science, Survey Archaeology, and the Cypriot Iron Age -- Index