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Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus

Identity, Insularity, and Connectivity

A Bernard Knapp author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:21st Feb '08

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A. Bernard Knapp presents a new island archaeology and island history of Bronze Age and early Iron Age Cyprus, set in its Mediterranean context. Drawing out tensions between different ways of thinking about islands, and how they are connected or isolated from surrounding islands and mainlands, Knapp addresses an under-studied but dynamic new field of archaeological enquiry - the social identity of prehistoric and protohistoric Mediterranean islanders. In treating issues such as ethnicity, migration, and hybridization, he provides an up-to-date theoretical analysis of a wide range of relevant archaeological data. In using historical documents to re-present the Cypriot past, he also offers an integrated archaeological and socio-historical synthesis of insularity and social identity on the Mediterranean's third largest island.

densely-textured study * Lionel Casson, Nautical Archaeology *

ISBN: 9780199237371

Dimensions: 240mm x 162mm x 27mm

Weight: 1019g

520 pages