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On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus During the 6th to 4th Millennia bc (in English)
Joanne Clarke (Author)
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On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus During the 6th to 4th Millennia bc (in English) - Joanne Clarke
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Synopsis "On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus During the 6th to 4th Millennia bc (in English)"
This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as one of prolonged cultural continuity and isolation from the mainland. Through the documentation and integration of technological practice and up-to-date climatic, ecological and environmental data, it is proposed that many of the observable differences between mainland southwest Asia and Cyprus during this period are the result of divergent adaptive strategies in response to different environmental conditions, low population density and low resource stress. The book draws upon theories in ecological and evolutionary biology and adapts it to cultural change in general. By employing a holistic approach with a focus on technological practice the book seeks to show that cultural change on Cyprus is concomitant with broadly similar cultural trajectories taken in other regions on the margins of southwest Asia. The conclusion reached is that if all of the pressures that drove cultural change on the mainland were relaxed the result would be a stable hunter-gatherer economy with a bit of farming and herding: exactly what appears to be the case on Cyprus.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Chronology and terminology 3. Cyprus During the 6th to 4th millennia BC 4. Climate, Economy and change: Cyprus and the Levant during the late Pleistocene – mid Holocene (Alexander Wasse) 5. Technological practices and the study of long-term change 6. Lithics (Carole McCartney) 7. Social and technological changes in pottery production 8. Social and technological changes in settlement structures and uses of space 9. Epilogue: Society on the margins of southwest Asia Bibliography
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