Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus: Identity, Insularity, and Connectivity

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Contents......Page 12
List of Illustrations......Page 16
List of Abbreviations......Page 21
1. Introduction......Page 22
Mediterranean Islands, Insularity, and Identity......Page 24
Background and Current Research......Page 31
2. Issues, Agendas, and Archaeological Constructs......Page 34
Island Archaeology, Insularity, and Island History......Page 35
The Island Paradox......Page 40
Insularity and Connectivity......Page 43
Islandscapes......Page 45
Island Identities......Page 48
Social Identity and Ethnicity, Migration, Acculturation, and Hybridization......Page 51
Social Identity......Page 52
Ethnicity......Page 56
Migration......Page 68
Acculturation......Page 74
Hybridization......Page 78
Summary and Conclusions......Page 83
Archaeological Constructions: Innovation and Change......Page 87
Prehistoric Bronze Age (PreBA) Cyprus: A Social Approach......Page 89
Spatial Organization and Cultural Sequences......Page 90
Production and Exchange......Page 95
Material Culture and Mortuary Practices......Page 103
Representations......Page 108
Individuals in Archaeology?......Page 113
Migration and Hybridization......Page 124
Hybridization in the PreBA......Page 135
4. Protohistoric Bronze Age Cyprus (ProBA): A Sociohistorical Approach......Page 152
Settlement Trends......Page 155
Socio-political Organization......Page 165
Seals, Sealings, and Socio-political Organization......Page 174
Production and Exchange......Page 180
Production, Exchange, and Identity......Page 193
Gendered Representations......Page 194
Mortuary Practices......Page 207
Mortuary Practices and Identity......Page 220
Architecture, Monumentality, and Memory......Page 222
The Case for Cyprus......Page 227
Monumental Structures of the ProBA......Page 232
Special-Purpose Sites and Structures of the ProBA......Page 254
Monumentality, Memory, and Identity......Page 260
Migrations and the Aegean ‘Colonization’ of Cyprus......Page 270
Other Aspects of Material Culture......Page 280
Migration and Hybridization in the ProBA......Page 285
Other Aspects of Material Culture......Page 289
5. The Earliest Iron Age: LC IIIB......Page 302
Hybridization in LC IIIB......Page 307
Historicity and Identity in Early Iron Age Cyprus......Page 311
Alashiya and Protohistory......Page 319
The Identification of Alashiya with Cyprus......Page 321
Ku-pi-ri-jo/a, A-ra-si-jo, and Cyprus......Page 324
Economy and Polity......Page 328
Society and Polity......Page 337
The Political Organization of Cyprus/Alashiya......Page 345
An Historical Overview of ProBA Cyprus: Texts and Archaeology......Page 356
Elishah, ’lšyy and Iadnana: The Early Iron Age of Cyprus......Page 362
Archaeology, Texts, and Iron Age History......Page 366
The Prehistoric Bronze Age......Page 369
The Protohistoric Bronze Age......Page 378
Early Iron Age Cyprus......Page 389
Island Identities......Page 394
Island Identities: Cyprus and the Mediterranean......Page 397
The Mediterranean and its Boundaries......Page 403
Comparative Studies and Mediterranean Island Archaeology......Page 407
Islands and Identities: Final Thoughts......Page 409
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