9. Discerning “Favorable” Environments: Science, Survey Archaeology, and the Cypriot Iron Age

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction: New Directions in Method and Theory 1
5. Keynote: Exploring Diversity in Bronze Age Cyprus 16
6. PART I. The Context and Matter of Prehistory
7. 1. The Middle Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age Chronology of Cyprus: Refinements and Reconstructions 45
8. 2. The Fabric Next Door: A Comparative Study of Pottery Technology and Composition at the Early and Middle Bronze Age Settlements of Marki Alonia and Alambra Mouttes 75
9. 3. Environment and Sociopolitical Complexity on Prehistoric Cyprus: Observations, Trajectories, and Sketch 99
10. PART II. Bronze Age Complexities
11. 4. Negotiating a New Landscape: Middle Bronze Age Fortresses as a Component of the Cypriot Political Assemblage 133
12. 5. Gray Economics in Late Bronze Age Cyprus 160
13. 6. Tracing the Foundation Horizon of Palaepaphos: New Research on the Early History of the Paphos Region 190
14. PART III. Diachronic Landscapes
15. 7. Alambra: From “A Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus” to a Royal District 221
16. 8. The Archaeology of the North Coast of Cyprus: The Evidence from Lapithos 241
17. 9. Discerning “Favorable” Environments: Science, Survey Archaeology, and the Cypriot Iron Age 266
18. Index 295