Re-survey and spatial analysis of landscape developments during the first millennium BC on Cyprus

Bibliographic Data

ID3671248
AuthorsCatherine Kearns (0000-0003-3443-6411, University of Chicago, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume90
Issue353
Publication date2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2016.164
OpenAlexW2520400484
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited1

The narrative of socio-political development on the semi-arid island of Cyprus during the early first millennium BC (c. 1100-500) has focused largely on the institutions, practices and material culture of major centres and their interrelationships with growing maritime networks. Less studied are the landscapes surrounding these coastal and inland towns, which helped condition the increasing wealth and power of authorities through the management of agropastoral and metal goods, and through the creation of new mortuary, ritual and community spaces (Iacovou 2014). These regional contexts, whose settlements and land-use practices have now been recorded through several survey projects, provide a rich yet under-used source of material for investigating social transformations during this period. Ongoing interdisciplinary work in the Vasilikos and Maroni Valleys of south-central Cyprus has begun systematic analysis of these landscape changes and their long-term contexts. The project is focused on a 150km2 research area situated 20km east of the ancient polity of Amathus, extending from the central Troodos massif down to the coast (Figure 1

Archaeology · Geography · Human settlement · Narrative · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Polity · Settlement (finance) · Situated · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

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