1st Edition

Dynamics and Developments of Social Structures and Networks in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus

Edited By Teresa Bürge, Laerke Recht Copyright 2024
318 Pages 95 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

318 Pages 95 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

318 Pages 95 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches. The Cypriot Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are characterised by an increasing complexity of social and political organisation, economic systems, and networks. The book discusses and defines how... Read more

1. Introduction: connecting multiple approaches to social structures and networks

Lærke Recht and Teresa Bürge

 

2. Material convergences in a globalising world? Cyprus and the Near East in the seventh and sixth millennia BCE

Joanne Clarke and Alexander Wasse

 

3. Economic convergences in a globalising world? Cyprus and the Near East in the seventh and sixth millennia BCE

Alexander Wasse and Joanne Clarke

 

4. A multi-proxy approach to human-environment-climate coevolution in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus

Francesca Chelazzi

 

5. Rethinking the emergence of social inequalities: the case of Chalcolithic Cyprus

Bleda S. Düring

 

6. Metal artefact production and distribution in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus: patterns of intraregional and interregional connection and disconnection

Jennifer M. Webb

 

7. Intraregional and interregional connections on Cyprus between MC III and LC I in the regions of Limassol and Paphos

Elena Peri

 

8. Innovation and adaptation: ceramic development across the Middle to Late Cypriot horizon

Christine Johnston, Lindy Crewe and Artemios Oikonomou

 

9. 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

 

10. Strategies for success during the transition to the Late Bronze Age at Kissonerga-Skalia

Lindy Crewe and Ellon Souter

 

11. 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

 

12. Of bulls and birds: Mycenaean and Cypriot animal and social symbolism on the move

Katarzyna Zeman-Wiśniewska

 

13. Eastern Mediterranean exchange networks: imported ceramics at Pyla-Kokkinokremos, Cyprus

Ioanna Kostopoulou

 

14. Pyla-Kokkinokremos (Cyprus) and Late Bronze Age Mediterranean networks: the role of the pithoi

Francesca Porta and Valentina Cannavò

 

15. Pursuits of social status and power at Maa-Palaeokastro

Artemis Georgiou

 

16. Connecting communities: agency and social interactions in prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus

Louise Steel

Biography

Teresa Bürge 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.

Lærke 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.