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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2023
      December 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009071826
      9781316513125
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009071826
      Dimensions:
      (251 x 176 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.82kg, 376 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Archaeology, Archaeology
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    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Archaeology, Archaeology
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    The ninth to the fifth centuries BCE saw a series of significant historical transformations across Cyprus, especially in the growth of towns and in developments in the countryside. In this book, Catherine Kearns argues that changing patterns of urban and rural sedentism drove social changes as diverse communities cultivated new landscape practices. Climatic changes fostered uneven relationships between people, resources like land, copper, and wood, and increasingly important places like rural sanctuaries and cemeteries. Bringing together a range of archaeological, textual, and scientific evidence, the book examines landscapes, environmental history, and rural practices to argue for their collective instrumentality in the processes driving Iron Age political formations. It suggests how rural households managed the countryside, interacted with the remains of earlier generations, and created gathering spaces alongside the development of urban authorities. Offering new insights into landscape archaeologies, Dr Kearns contributes to current debates about society's relationships with changing environments.

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    ‘[An] innovative and original contribution to landscape studies and to the archaeology of complex societies in the eastern Mediterranean.’

    Alex R. Knodell Source: Journal of Near Eastern Studies

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