This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th
millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as one of
prolonged cultural continuity and isolation from the mainland.
Through the documentation and integration of technological practice
and up-to-date climatic, ecological and environmental data, it is
proposed that many of the observable differences between mainland
southwest Asia and Cyprus during this period are the result of
divergent adaptive strategies in response to different
environmental conditions, low population density and low resource
stress. The book draws upon theories in ecological and evolutionary
biology and adapts it to cultural change in general. By employing a
holistic approach with a focus on technological practice the book
seeks to show that cultural change on Cyprus is concomitant with
broadly similar cultural trajectories taken in other regions on the
margins of southwest Asia. The conclusion reached is that if all of
the pressures that drove cultural change on the mainland were
relaxed the result would be a stable hunter-gatherer economy with a
bit of farming and herding: exactly what appears to be the case on
Cyprus.
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