Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus - An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change

"Using various archaeological, environmental, and historical data, this book argues that changes in landscapes, climate, and rural practices were instrumental to Iron Age political formations on Cyprus. It offers new insights into landscape archaeologies and contributes to current debates about society's relationships with changing environments"--

List of contents

Preface. Chapter 1: Introduction. Part I. Chapter 2: Re-assessing the "Land-" of Landscape: Environments, Climates, Weathering. Chapter 3: Unruly Landscapes: Rural Resources, Territory, Time. Part II Chapter 4: Pulses in an Electromagnetic Field: First-Millennium BCE Environmental and Social Change. Chapter 5: Beyond Amathus: South-Central Cyprus in Context. Chapter 6: Gypsum, Copper, Soil: Archaic Countrysides. Chapter 7: Conclusions: Becoming Rural. Appendix I.

About the author

Catherine Kearns is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, University of Chicago. She conducts fieldwork on Iron Age sites in Cyprus with the KAMBE Project, for which she has received support from the Mellon Foundation, ACLS, Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and the US Fulbright program. She has published in numerous journals and recently co-edited New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology (2019).

Summary

Using various archaeological, environmental, and historical data, this book argues that changes in landscapes, climate, and rural practices were instrumental to Iron Age political formations on Cyprus. It offers new insights into landscape archaeologies and contributes to current debates about society's relationships with changing environments.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Kearns, Catherine (University of Chicago) Kearns
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781316513125
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51312-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Social and cultural history, Cyprus, Society and culture: general, Landscape Archaeology, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, Environmental archaeology