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The Creative Independence of Late Bronze Age Cyprus: An Account of the Archaeological Importance of White Slip Ware
by Kathryn O. Eriksson
This volume attempts to present a comprehensive account of the historical developments in Cyprus during the period of the production of White Slip Wares (ca 15801180 BC). Using the Kitchen chronology for the Egyptian New Kingdom, which commenced in 1540 BC, the study emphasizes the importance of archaeological records and how context analysis allows more precision in a relative chronology. This period witnessed the emergence of Cyprus into the ...
Paperback. Price US$132.00
From Ishtar to Aphrodite: 3200 Years of Cypriot Hellenism. Treasures from the Museums of Cyprus
edited by Sophocles Hadjisavvas
In Greek mythology, Cyprus is considered the birthplace of Aphrodite. Tracing an Eastern symbol in the origins of Aphrodite, so quintessentially Greek, symbolizes Cyprus' role as the easternmost bastion of Hellenism and the island's ability to assimilate the numerous cultural influences to which it was exposed over the centuries. From Ishtar to Aphrodite: 3200 Years of Cypriot Hellenism, includes commentary and color illustration of the 85 works ...
The Late Roman Church at Maroni Petrera
by Sturt W Manning et al.
A report on survey work and salvage excavations, 1990-1997, undertaken at the Late Roman church of Maroni Petrera located in the Lower Maroni Valley in southern Cyprus and first established in the mid-5th century. Within the remit of the work of the Maroni Valley Archaeological Survey Project the remains of this semi-bulldozed site were recorded, the wider area surveyed and the finds studied. This report includes details on the survey ...
Paperback. Price US$45.00
The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project: Social Approaches to Regional Archaeological Survey
by Michael Given and A Bernard Knapp
"The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project (SCSP) devoted five seasons of fieldwork (1992-1997) to an intensive survey in the north-central foothills of the Troodos Mountains on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The survey covered 65 square kilometers in and around the modern villages of Politiko and Mitsero. This pathbreaking project examined the relationship between the production and distribution of agricultural and metallurgical resources. ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$62.00, Our Price US$19.98
Mosaic - Festschrift for A H S Megaw
by J. Herrin, M. Mullett, C. Otten-Froux
Mosaic, a collection of articles written in honour of A. H. S. (Peter) Megaw, closely reflects the scope of his work during a lifetime dedicated to Mediaeval and Byzantine art history and archaeology. Colleagues and students from Cyprus, Greece, Great Britain, the United States, Switzerland, France and South Africa pay tribute to his wide interests: his early studies of Middle Byzantine architecture (published in the Annual of the British School ...
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Toumba tou Skourou: The Mound of Darkness
by Emily T Vermeule
This is not the excavation report but instead an introduction to some of the most exciting finds and theories produced by the Harvard University/Museum of Fine Arts 1971-74 excavations at the Bronze Age town on Morphou Bay in Cyprus. The site joins Enkomi, Kition and Myrtou as a major source of our knowledge about Cyprus' place in Bronze Age contact and exchange. 72p, 75 b/w plates (Museum of Fine Arts 1974)
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Sexually Ambiguous Imagery in Cyprus from the Neolithic to the Cypro-Archaic Period
by Sandra Christou
Although the earliest known literary evidence for a dual-sexed divinity on Cyprus dates to the fifth century BCE, archaeological evidence indicates there was a tradition on the island of sexually ambiguous imagery which predates the literary sources. This ...
Paperback. Price US$63.00
Moving Heaven and Earth: Landscape, Death and Memory in the Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus
by Paula Louise Jones
This monograph focuses on the Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus, and addresses three key theoretical topics; memory, death and landscape. Sites dating from the initial colonisation of the island (the Akrotiri phase) through to Khirokitia and its ...
Paperback. Price US$80.00
Early Enkomi
by Lindy Crewe
The beginning of the Late Bronze Age on Cyprus saw a range of dramatic changes occurring in the settlement patterns and material culture of the island, accompanied by evidence for increased interaction with the surrounding region. These include population ...
Paperback. Price US$112.50
The Fabric of the Ancient Theatre: Excavation Journals from Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean
by Diana Wood Conroy
The author combines her roles as artist, archaeologist and ethnographer to good effect in this collection of her journals written during her time working at the ancient theatre in Paphos and her travels around the east Mediterranean. In 1995 Diana Wood ...
Hardback. Price US$56.00
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