The Earliest Prehistory of Cyprus: From Colonization to Exploitation

by Swiny, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780897570510
• ISBN10: 0897570510
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Amer School of Oriental

Summary

The remarkable developments concerning the earliest prehistory of Cyprus are presented by scholars immediately involved with the research who discuss the evidence and its interpretation. No other publication encompasses recent findings from the period of earliest colonization of the island to the Neolithic sedentary communities. Together with a review of evidence from the Levant, this collection of papers is essential reading for prehistorians and archaeologists working in the region. Contents: The First Humans and Last Pygmy Hippopotami of Cyprus (Alan H. Simmons); Some Comments on the Akrotiri Aetokremnos Fauna (David S. Reese); Parekklisha Shillourokambos: An Early Neolithic Site in Cyprus; Jean-Denis Vigne, Large Mammals of Early Aceramic Neolithic Cyprus: Preliminary Results from Parekklisha Shillourokambos (Jean Guilaine and Francois Briois); Well-Established Colonists: Mylouthkia 1 and the Cypro-Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (Edgar Peltenburg, Paul Croft, Adam Jackson, Carole McCartney, and Mary Anne Murray); Kalavasos Tenta Revisited (Ian A. Todd); At the Other End of the Sequence: The Cypriot Aceramic Neolithic as Seen from Khirokitia (Alain Le Brun); Aceramic Neolithic Plant Remains in Cyprus: Clues to their Origins? (Julie Hansen); The World Around Cyprus: From Epi-Paleolithic Foragers to the Collapse of the PPNB Civilization (Ofer Bar-Yosef).

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Preface
The First Humans and Last Pygmy Hippopotami of Cyprus	p. 1
Some Comments on the Akrotiri Aetokremnos Fauna	p. 19
Parekklisha Shillourokambos: An Early Neolithic Site in Cyprus	p. 37
Large Mammals of Early Aceramic Neolithic Cyprus: Preliminary Results from Parekklisha Shillourokambos	p. 55
Well-Established Colonists: Mylouthkia 1 and the Cypro-Pre-Pottery Neolithic B	p. 61
Kalavasos Tenta Revisited	p. 95
At the Other End of the Sequence: The Cypriot Aceramic Neolithic as Seen from Khirokitia	p. 109
Aceramic Neolithic Plant Remains in Cyprus: Clues to their Origins?	p. 119
The World Around Cyprus: From Epi-Paleolithic Foragers to the Collapse of the PPNB Civilization	p. 129
A Note on Dating	p. 165
Index	p. 167
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