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 In using historical documents to re-present the Cypriot past, he also offers an integrated archaeological and socio-historical synthesis of insularity and social identity on the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.

Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus: Identity, Insularity, and Connectivity

History

Knapp, A. Bernard

Ancient Civilizations

Oxford University Press

* Explores the cultures of ancient Near East civilizations from prehistoric times to the death of Alexander the Great..* Encompasses Western Asia and Egypt, through the Eastern Mediterranean, to the borders of Greece..* Note: Knapp (unlike Jones, above) does not include coverage of Ancient Greece and Rome.

The History and Culture of Ancient Western Asia and Egypt

Dorsey Press

Situated between the worlds of the Near East, Europe and Africa, the archaeology and culture of Cyprus are central to an understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world. This book treats the archaeology of Cyprus from the first-known human presence during the Late Epipalaeolithic (ca. 11,000 BC) through the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 1000 BC). A. Bernard Knapp examines the archaeological and documentary records of prehistoric Cyprus within their regional context, paying special attention to the Levant and the Aegean. The appendix (compiled by Sturt W. Manning) analyses all published radiocarbon dates from the island, providing for the first time a comprehensive chronological framework for all of Cypriot prehistory. Focusing on key themes such as identity, insularity and connectivity, and society, community and polity throughout, this book provides a remarkably up-to-date and integrated synthesis of human activity on the Mediterranean's third-largest island.

The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age (Cambridge World Archaeology)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

This Element looks critically at migration scenarios proposed for the end of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. After presenting some historical background to the development of migration studies, including types and definitions of migration as well as some of its possible material correlates, I consider how we go about studying human mobility and issues regarding 'ethnicity'. There follows a detailed and critical examination of the history of research related to migration and ethnicity in the southern Levant at the end of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1200 BC), considering both migrationist and anti-migrationist views. I then present and critique recent studies on climatic and related issues, as well as the current state of evidence from palaeogenetics and strontium isotope analyses. The conclusion attempts to look anew at this enigmatic period of transformation and social change, of mobility and connectivity, alongside the hybridised practices of social actors.

Migration Myths and the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean (Elements in the Archaeology of Europe)

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

The Troodos Mountains, in central Cyprus, is a region of great physical and cultural diversity. The....

Landscape and Interaction: Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation: Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Vol 1 (Levant Supplementary Series)

Given, Michael

Noller, Jay

Sollars, Luke

Kassianidou, Vasiliki

Council for British Research in the Levant

The TAESP Landscape, the second of two volumes, presents an area-by-area analysis of the fieldwork and research undertaken by the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project (TAESP) in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. Covering four regions of the survey area (The Plains, Karkotis Valley, Upper Lagoudhera Valley and The Mountains) the volume focuses on explicit research questions appropriate to each region. Organised geographically, chronologically and thematically, each region is investigated from the Neolithic to the present day and, through ‘Intensive Survey Zones’ – selected to give a representative range of the physical and cultural terrain – many notable new discoveries are made. These include the pattern of Bronze Age Settlement in the Plains, Archaic rural sanctuaries and cemeteries, the scope of Late Roman copper-mining and isolated Medieval mountain settlements. The TAESP Landscape provides a fully integrated and data-rich analysis of the material from a wide range of contrasting archaeological perspectives. Taken together, these wide-ranging and interdisciplinary perspectives give a nuanced and sensitive approach to a strikingly multi-faceted landscape.

Landscape and Interaction, Troodos Survey Vol 2: The TAESP Landscape (Levant Supplementary Series)

The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project (SCSP) devoted five seasons of fieldwork (1992-1997) to an intensive archaeological survey in the north-central foothills of the Troodos Mountains on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The survey covered 65 square kilometers in and around the modern villages of Politiko and Mitsero. This pathbreaking project examined the relationship between the production and distribution of agricultural and metallurgical resources. Additionally, the project provides new insights into the interpretation and collection of regional archaeological data. The volume represents an integrated approach to the discussion of social landscapes--from archaeological, historical, geomorphological, geobotanical, and archaeometallurgical perspectives--within the SCSP survey universe. The twenty-two contributors to this volume provide a comprehensive data set including lithics, pottery, site types, and radiocarbon dates. Full color GIS maps provide a wealth of information on pottery densities and site distribtutions. This well-illustrated monograph will serve as a model for future research throughout the region.

The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project: Social Approaches to Regional Archaeological Survey (Monumenta Archaeologica)

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas — communicating and sharing knowledge across the sea and between different lands. Seagoing ships under sail were operating between the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Anatolia by the mid-third millennium BC and within the Aegean by the end of that millennium. By the Late Bronze Age (after ca. 1700/1600 BC), seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean made the region an economic epicenter, one in which there was no place for Aegean, Canaanite or Egyptian trading monopolies, or ‘thalassocracies.’ At that time, the world of eastern Mediterranean seafaring and seafarers became much more complex, involving a number of different peoples in multiple networks of economic and social exchange. This much is known, or in many cases widely presumed. Is it possible to trace the origins and emergence of these early trade networks? Can we discuss at any reasonable level who was involved in these maritime ventures? Who built the early ships in which maritime trade was conducted, and who captained them? Who sailed them? Which ports and harbors were the most propitious for maritime trade? What other evidence exists for seafaring, fishing, the exploitation of marine resources, and related maritime matters? This study seeks to address such questions by examining a wide range of material, documentary and iconographic evidence, and reexamining a multiplicity of varying interpretations on Bronze Age seafaring and seafarers in the eastern Mediterranean, from Anatolia in the north to Egypt in the south and west to Cyprus. The Aegean world operated on the western boundaries of this region, but is referred to more in passing than in engagement. Because the social aspects of seafaring and transport, the relationship different peoples had with the sea, and the whole notion of ‘seascapes’ are seldom discussed in the literature of the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, this volume devotes significant attention to such factors, including: mobility, connectivity, the length and purpose as well as the risk of the journey, the knowledge and experience of navigation and travel, ‘working’ the sea, the impact of distance and access to the exotic upon peoples’ identities and ideologies, and much more. Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments List of Figures 1. Introduction A Brief (Pre)History of the Mediterranean Bronze Age 2. Maritime Matters and Materials Social Aspects – Seascapes and Seafaring – Merchants, Mariners and Pirates Material Aspects – Shipwrecks – Ports and Harbours – Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs) – Ships’ Representations, Boat Models – Stone Anchors, Fishing and Fishing Equipment 3. Early Bronze Age The Levant and Egypt – Ports and Harbours – Ships’ Representations – Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs) – Stone Anchors Cyprus Anatolia – Ports and Harbours 4. Middle Bronze Age The Levant and Egypt – Ports and Harbours – Ships’ Representations – Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs) – Stone Anchors Cyprus – Ships’ Representations – Maritime Transport Containers and Overseas Trade Anatolia – Shipwrecks and Stone Anchors – Ports and Harbours – Maritime Transport Containers 5. Late Bronze Age The Documentary Record – Ships and Cargoes – Merchants and Mariners The Levant and Egypt – Ports and Harbours – Ships’ Representations (Levant) – Ships’ Representations (Egypt) – Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs) – Stone Anchors, Fishing Tackle and Fish Cyprus – Harbours – Ships’ Representations – Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs) – Stone Anchors – Miniature Anchors, Fishing Tackle and Fish Anatolia – Harbours – Shipwrecks – Ships’ Representations – Stone Anchors and Fishing Equipment 6. Seafaring, Seafarers and Seaborne Trade A Diachronic Overview – Early Bronze Age – Middle Bronze Age – Late Bronze Age Networks and Routes of Exchange Seafaring, Seafarers and Bronze Age Polities 7. Conclusions 8. References 9. Index

Sidestone Press

Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas — communicating and sharing knowledge across the sea and between different lands. Seagoing ships under sail were operating between the Levant, Egypt, Cyprus and Anatolia by the mid-third millennium BC and within the Aegean by the end of that millennium. By the Late Bronze Age (after ca. 1700/1600 BC), seaborne trade in the eastern Mediterranean made the region an economic epicenter, one in which there was no place for Aegean, Canaanite or Egyptian trading monopolies, or ‘thalassocracies.’ At that time, the world of eastern Mediterranean seafaring and seafarers became much more complex, involving a number of different peoples in multiple networks of economic and social exchange.This much is known, or in many cases widely presumed. Is it possible to trace the origins and emergence of these early trade networks? Can we discuss at any reasonable level who was involved in these maritime ventures? Who built the early ships in which maritime trade was conducted, and who captained them? Who sailed them? Which ports and harbors were the most propitious for maritime trade? What other evidence exists for seafaring, fishing, the exploitation of marine resources, and related maritime matters?This study seeks to address such questions by examining a wide range of material, documentary and iconographic evidence, and reexamining a multiplicity of varying interpretations on Bronze Age seafaring and seafarers in the eastern Mediterranean, from Anatolia in the north to Egypt in the south and west to Cyprus. The Aegean world operated on the western boundaries of this region, but is referred to more in passing than in engagement. Because the social aspects of seafaring and transport, the relationship different peoples had with the sea, and the whole notion of ‘seascapes’ are seldom discussed in the literature of the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, this volume devotes significant attention to such factors, including: mobility, connectivity, the length and purpose as well as the risk of the journey, the knowledge and experience of navigation and travel, ‘working’ the sea, the impact of distance and access to the exotic upon peoples’ identities and ideologies, and much more.Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of Figures1. IntroductionA Brief (Pre)History of the Mediterranean Bronze Age2. Maritime Matters and MaterialsSocial Aspects– Seascapes and Seafaring– Merchants, Mariners and PiratesMaterial Aspects– Shipwrecks– Ports and Harbours– Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs)– Ships’ Representations, Boat Models– Stone Anchors, Fishing and Fishing Equipment3. Early Bronze AgeThe Levant and Egypt– Ports and Harbours– Ships’ Representations– Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs)– Stone AnchorsCyprusAnatolia– Ports and Harbours4. Middle Bronze AgeThe Levant and Egypt– Ports and Harbours– Ships’ Representations– Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs)– Stone AnchorsCyprus– Ships’ Representations– Maritime Transport Containers and Overseas TradeAnatolia– Shipwrecks and Stone Anchors– Ports and Harbours– Maritime Transport Containers5. Late Bronze AgeThe Documentary Record– Ships and Cargoes– Merchants and MarinersThe Levant and Egypt– Ports and Harbours– Ships’ Representations (Levant)– Ships’ Representations (Egypt)– Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs)– Stone Anchors, Fishing Tackle and FishCyprus– Harbours– Ships’ Representations– Maritime Transport Containers (MTCs)– Stone Anchors– Miniature Anchors, Fishing Tackle and FishAnatolia– Harbours– Shipwrecks– Ships’ Representations– Stone Anchors and Fishing Equipment6. Seafaring, Seafarers and Seaborne TradeA Diachronic Overview– Early Bronze Age– Middle Bronze Age– Late Bronze AgeNetworks and Routes of ExchangeSeafaring, Seafarers and Bronze Age Polities7. Conclusions8. References9. Index

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Knapp, A. Bernard. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Knapp, A. Bernard

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Knapp, A. Bernard. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus: Identity, Insularity, and Connectivity

The History and Culture of Ancient Western Asia and Egypt

The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age (Cambridge World Archaeology)

The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age (Cambridge World Archaeology)

Migration Myths and the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean (Elements in the Archaeology of Europe)

Landscape and Interaction: Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation: Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Vol 1 (Levant Supplementary Series)

Landscape and Interaction, Troodos Survey Vol 2: The TAESP Landscape (Levant Supplementary Series)

The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project: Social Approaches to Regional Archaeological Survey (Monumenta Archaeologica)

Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean