Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes: Antikythera in Long-Term Perspective - Couverture rigide

Bevan, Andrew; Conolly, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107033454 ISBN 13 : 9781107033450

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Mediterranean landscape ecology, island cultures and long-term human history have all emerged as major research agendas over the past half-century, engaging large swathes of the social and natural sciences. This book brings these traditions together in considering Antikythera, a tiny island perched on the edge of the Aegean and Ionian seas, over the full course of its human history. Small islands are particularly interesting because their human, plant and animal populations often experience abrupt demographic changes, including periods of near-complete abandonment and recolonization, and Antikythera proves to be one of the best-documented examples of these shifts over time. Small islands also play eccentric but revealing roles in wider social, economic and political networks, serving as places for refugees, hunters, modern eco-tourists, political exiles, hermits and pirates. Antikythera is a rare case of an island that has been investigated in its entirety from several systematic fieldwork and disciplinary perspectives, not least of which is an intensive archaeological survey. The authors use the resulting evidence to offer a unique vantage on settlement and land use histories.

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À propos des auteurs

Andrew Bevan is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at University College London. His primary research interests include landscape ecology, spatial and computational modeling, and archaeological fieldwork techniques. Recent publications include contributions to journals such as Antiquity, Archaeometry, Ecological Modelling, Environmental Archaeology, the Journal of Archaeological Science and the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. He is author of Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and co-editor (with David Wengrow) of Cultures of Commodity Branding (2010).

James Conolly is Canada Research Chair in Archaeology at Trent University, Canada. His research interests span archaeology and ecology and he has published widely on the biogeography of early plant and animal domestication and on the application of spatial modeling and geographical information systems to archaeological and palaeoenvironmental datasets. He is the co-author (with Mark Lake) of Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and the co-editor (with Sue Colledge) of The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe (2007). His current research focuses on early to mid-Holocene environments and archaeology in the lower Great Lakes region of North America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107033454
• ISBN 13: 9781107033450
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 327
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie