Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology

Sturt Manning is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cornell University, where he also directs the Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory. His research interests include Aegean, Cypriot, and east Mediterranean archaeology, along with the archaeology of complex societies, dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating, and archaeological science. Recent publications include A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid-second Millennium BC (Oxbow, 2014) and Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm (Oxbow, 2009).

• Bernard Knapp: An IntroductionExplicandumSturt W. ManningIntroductionSturt W. Manning1. Reflections on Thirty Years of the Journal of MediterraneanArchaeology with BernardoJohn F. Cherry, Brown UniversityPart I: Cypriot Pre- and Proto-history and Economy2. Cyprus’ External Connections in the Prehistoric Bronze AgeJennifer Webb, LaTrobe University3. Toward a Social Life of Things in Late Bronze Age CyprusKevin D. Fisher, University of British Columbia4. Cypriot Iron Age Communities in Time and Place: Considering Amathus in a Regional ContextCatherine Kearns, University of ChicagoPart II: Cyprus and Metallurgy5. Placing Politiko Phorades in the Historiography and Evolution ofLate Cypriot MetallurgyVassiliki Kassianidou, University of Cyprus6. Mathiatis Mavrovouni: a Miner’s Sanctuary on the Island of CyprusSophocles Hadjisavvas, Independent ScholarPart III: Cypriot Landscapes7. The Mountainous Landscapes of Cyprus in Antiquity: Deconstructing“Troodos”Georgia Andreou, University of Southampton8. Towards a Post-Survey Landscape ArchaeologyMichael Given, University of GlasgowPart IV: The Wider Mediterranean: Prehistory, Society andContext9. Middle Bronze Age Sicily: Imports, Networks, and the Myth of Insular UnityEmma Blake, University of Arizona10. Reinventing Persistent Memory Landscapes: The Late Minoan IIIInterventions in the Pre- and Proto-Palatial Cemetery at Petras-Kephala (Siteia, Crete)David Rupp (Brock University) and Metaxia Tsipopoulou (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sport, Athens)11. Mobility and Labour Efforts Along Prehistoric Roads and Least Cost Paths in the Argolid, GreeceAnn Brysbaert, University of Leiden12. All the King’s Wine? Late Bronze Age Vineyards in Texts fromEmar and UgaritChris Monroe, Cornell University13. Mediterranean Entanglements: Exploring Material Connections in Iron Age SardiniaPeter van Dommelen, Brown University14. Time, Consilience and Climate-History Associations: Details, and the Case of the End of the Late Bronze Age (~1200 BC)Sturt W. ManningPart V: Maritime Archaeology of Cyprus and the Levant15. Mariners’ Cuisine? Cypriot Cookware from the Late Bronze II Age from the Tell Abu Hawam AnchorageMichal Artzy (University of Haifa) and José M. Martín-García (Pompeu Fabra University) 16. Ceramics and Stone Anchors: Re-assessing the Anchorage of Maroni TsaroukkasCarrie Atkins, Univdersity of Toronto17. Seascapes and Maritime Capacity of Late Roman CyprusStella Demesticha, University of Cyprus