Catherine Kearns (University of Chicago)

The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 888g
• ISBN-13: 9781316513125
• ISBN-10: 1316513122
• Artikelnr.: 64222745

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.