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Book SynopsisNew 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
Trade Review
This well-crafted volume highlights the varied forms of human trajectories at different time on an insular context. Its strength lies in showcasing how research on "small scale" areas provides a substantial amount of data to enrich the narratives about the human past and its diversity during all periods, at any scale.
* Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
This is a book that belongs on the shelves of anyone interested in the prehistoric archaeology of Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean.
* ASOR *
New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology is a must-read for Cypriot archaeologists and should prove thought-provoking to Mediterranean prehistorians and island archaeologists of all stripes.
* AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY *
Table of ContentsList of 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
