Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology

Edited bySturt W. Manning, Cornell UniversitySturt Manning is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classics at Cornell University, USA, where he also directs the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory. His research interests include Aegean, Cypriot, and east Mediterranean archaeology, along with the archaeology of complex societies, dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating, and archaeological science. He is the author of A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid-second Millennium BC (Oxbow Books, 2014) and co-editor, with Catherine Kearns, of New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology (Cornell University Press, 2019).

• Contents List of Figures and Tables vii, Bernard Knapp: An Introduction (Explicandum) 1 Sturt W. ManningIntroduction 7 Sturt W. Manning 1 Reflections on Thirty Years of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology with Bernardo 12 John F. Cherry Part I: Cypriot Pre- and Proto-history and Economy 2 Cyprus’s External Connections in the Prehistoric Bronze Age 27 Jennifer M. Webb 3 Toward a Social Life of People and Things on Late Bronze Age Cyprus 43 Kevin D. Fisher 4 Cypriot Iron Age Communities in Time and Place: Considering Amathus in a Regional Context 64 Catherine Kearns Part II: Cyprus and Metallurgy 5 Placing Politiko Phorades in the Historiography and Evolution of Late Cypriot Metallurgy 87 Vasiliki Kassianidou 6 Mathiatis Mavrovouni: A Miner’s Sanctuary on the Island of Cyprus 108 Sophocles Hadjisavvas Part III: Cypriot Landscapes 7 The Mountainous Landscapes of Cyprus in Antiquity: Deconstructing the ‘Troodos’ 125 Georgia M. Andreou 8 Towards a Post-Survey Landscape Archaeology 144 Michael Given Part IV: The Wider Mediterranean: Prehistory, Society and Context 9 Middle Bronze Age Sicily: Imports, Networks and the Myth of Insular Unity 163 Emma Blake10 Reinventing Persistent Memory Landscapes: The Late Minoan III Interventions in the Pre- and Proto-palatial Cemetery at Petras- Kephala (Siteia, Crete) 177 David W. Rupp and Metaxia Tsipopoulou 11 Mobility and Labor Efforts Along Prehistoric Roads and Least Cost Paths in the Argolid, Greece 197 Ann Brysbaert 12 All the King’s Wine? Late Bronze Age Vineyards in Texts from Emar and Ugarit 217 Chris M. Monroe 13 Mediterranean Entanglements: Exploring Material Connections in Iron Age Sardinia 234 Peter van Dommelen 14 Time, Consilience and Climate-History Associations: Details, and the Case of the End of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1200 BC) 251 Sturt W. Manning Part V: Maritime Archaeology of Cyprus and the Levant 15 Mariners’ Cuisine? Cypriot Cookware from the Late Bronze II Age from the Tell Abu Hawam Anchorage 279 Michal Artzy and Jóse M. Martín-García 16 Ceramics and Stone Anchors: Re-assessing the Anchorage at Maroni Tsaroukkas 296 Carrie Atkins17 Seascapes and Maritime Capacity of Late Roman Cyprus 313 Stella Demesticha Index 341