Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus:Identity, Insularity, and Connectivity: Identity, Insularity, and Connectivity

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OUP Oxford, Feb 21, 2008 - History - 520 pages
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 asethnicity, 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 In using historical documents to re-present the Cypriot past, he also offers an integrated archaeological and socio-historical synthesis of insularity and socialidentity on the Mediterranean's third largest island.

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A. Bernard Knapp is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Glasgow.

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