Dynamics and developments of social structures and networks in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus / edited by Teresa Burge and Laerke Recht.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bürge, Teresa, editor.

Recht, Laerke, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Global perspectives on ancient Mediterranean archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neolithic period--Cyprus.

Neolithic period.

Bronze age--Cyprus.

Bronze age.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Cyprus.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Cyprus--Antiguities.

Cyprus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 296 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Teresa B|rge is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Universities of Gothenburg and Bern, and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant, in specific pottery and pottery provenance studies, economy, trade and exchange of goods, as well as depositional practices, ritual, and cult. She has co-directed the Swedish excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus, and is the expedition's ceramic expert. Lræke Recht is Professor of Early Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, Institute of Classics (Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies), University of Graz, and Research Fellow at the International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies. Her main research interests are the Bronze Age and prehistory of Cyprus, Mesopotamia, and the Aegean, in particular material culture studies, human-animal relations, and exchange networks. She conducts excavations in Cyprus at Erimi-Pitharka and is a part of the Tell Mozan Project in Syria.

Contents:

Introduction : connecting multiple approaches to social structures and networks / Laerke Recht and Teresa Bürge

Material convergences in a globalising world? : Cyprus and the Near East in the seventh and sixth millennia BCE / Joanne Clarke and Alexander Wasse

Economic convergences in a globalising world? : Cyprus and the Near East in the seventh and sixth millennia BCE / Alexander Wasse and Joanne Clarke

A multi-proxy approach to human-environment-climate coevolution in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus / Francesca Chelazzi

Rethinking the emergence of social inequalities: the case of Chalcolithic Cyprus / Bleda S. Düring

Metal artefact production and distribution in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus : patterns of intraregional and interregional connection and disconnection / Jennifer M. Webb

Intraregional and interregional connections on Cyprus between MC III and LC I in the regions of Limassol and Paphos / Elena Peri

Innovation and adaptation : ceramic development across the Middle to Late Cypriot horizon / Christine Johnston, Lindy Crewe and Artemios Oikonomou

Cypriot connections through the Middle to Late Bronze Age transition in the Western Galilee : a review of residual Cypriot pottery from Tel Achziv / Brigid Clark

Strategies for success during the transition to the Late Bronze Age at Kissonerga Skalia / Lindy Crewe and Ellon Souter

The social context of ritual in Late Bronze Age Cyprus : an archaeobotanical study from the cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke / Dominika Kofel, Teresa Bürge and Peter M. Fischer

Of bulls and birds : Mycenaean and Cypriot animal and social symbolism on the move / Katarzyna Zeman-Wiśniewska

Eastern Mediterranean exchange networks : imported ceramics at PylaKokkinokremos, Cyprus / Ioanna Kostopoulou

Pyla-Kokkinokremos (Cyprus) and Late Bronze Age Mediterranean networks : the role of the pithoi / Francesca Porta and Valentina Cannavò

Pursuits of social status and power at Maa-Palaeokastro / Artemis Georgiou

Connecting communities : agency and social interactions in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus / Louise Steel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Dynamics and developments of social structures and networks in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus

ISBN:

9781003320203

1003320201

9781003833611

1003833616

9781003833550

1003833551

Publisher Number:

40032170273

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