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 …

This chapter critically synthesizes the growing literature relating to the archaeology of the
senses and situates it in the light of the emerging interdisciplinary paradigm known as …

Islands are ideal case studies for exploring social connectivity, episodes of colonisation,
abandonment, and alternating phases of cultural interaction and isolation. Their societies …

For more than 50 years, biological anthropology has argued against the use of the biological
race concept. Despite such efforts, aspects of the concept remain in circulation within society …

This chapter reevaluates the evidence and interpretation of early metallurgical practices and
products in the central Mediterranean region, from the Middle Neolithic to the Early Bronze …

Metals, Culture and Capitalism is an ambitious, broad-ranging account of the search for
metals in Europe and the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution and the …

Background Genetic studies support the scenario that Bos taurus domestication occurred in
the Near East during the Neolithic transition about 10 thousand years (ky) ago, with the likely …

Obsidian sourcing studies have been conducted in the central Mediterranean for more than
50 years. Detailed studies have been done on the geological sources on four Italian islands …

Names: Iacono, Francesco, author. Title: The archaeology of late Bronze Age interaction and
mobility at the gates of Europe: people, things and networks around the southern Adriatic …

Abstract The Late Neolithic and Copper Age were a time of change in most of Europe.
Technological innovations including animal traction, the wheel, and plow agriculture …