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
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