COLLAPSE of Empires: Cyprus DEFIES Logic and PROFITS in the Bronze Age Collapse

Описание: Yes, I've returned to the Bronze Age Collapse to discuss an island that bucked the trend - Cyprus! As the trade networks and powerful empires of the Bronze Age collapsed, Cyprus rose, with cities such as Kition, Amathous, Salamis, and Paphos rising into existence, expanding, and even experiencing a golden age. Why was this? Well, join me, an archaeologist, as I talk about the evidence that we have available, how other scholars have interpreted it, and my own theory of what it all means for the ancient Mediterranean.


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(Key) Citations (sorry, YouTube has a 5,000 character limit!):
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Deger-Jalkotzy, S. (1998). The Aegean islands and the breakdown of the Mycenaean palaces around 1200 BC. Karageorghis and Stampolidis, 1998, 105-121.

Gilboa, A. 1999. “The view from the east – Tel Dor and the earliest Cypro-Geometric exports to the Levant”, in M. Iacovou and D. Michaelides (eds), Cyprus: the historicity of the Geometric horizon (Nicosia: Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus), 119-39.

Yon, M. 1999. “Salamis and Kition in the 11th-8th century B.C.: cultural homogeneity of divergence”, in M. Iacovou and D. Michaelides (eds), Cyprus: the historicity of the Geometric horizon (Nicosia: Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus), 17-33.

Karageorghis, V. (2000). Some thoughts on the late Bronze Age in Cyprus. Cahiers du Centre d’Etudes Chypriotes, 30(1), 9-15.

Iacovou, M. 2006. “From the Mycenaean qa-si-re-u to the Cypriote pa-si-le-wo-se: the basileus in the kingdoms of Cyprus”, in S. Deger-Jalkotzy and I.S. Lemos (eds), Ancient Greece: from the Mycenaean palaces to the age of Homer (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 315-35.

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Knapp, A. B. (2009). Migration, hybridisation and collapse: Bronze Age Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean. Scienze dell'Antichità: 15, 2009, 219-239.

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Satraki, A. 2010: "The archaeology of the Cypriot basileis: manifestations of royal authority in Iron Age Cyprus", in S. Christodoulou and A. Satraki (eds.), POCA 2007: Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 197-218.

Georgiou, A., & Georgiou, A. (2012). Pyla-Kokkinokremos, Maa-Palaeokastro and the settlement histories of Cyprus in the twelfth century BC (Doctoral dissertation, University of Oxford). 

Knapp, A. B. (2012). Matter of fact: Transcultural contacts in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean. Materiality and social practice: Transformative capacities of intercultural encounters, 32-50.

Iacovou, M. 2013: "Historically elusive and internally fragile island polities: the intricacies of Cyprus's political geography in the Iron Age", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 370, 15-47.

Webb JM. Ritual as the Setting for Contentious Interaction: From Social Negotiation to Institutionalised Authority in Bronze Age Cyprus. In: Knapp AB, van Dommelen P, eds. The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press; 2015:619-634.

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Satraki, A. (2019). From “A Middle Bronze Age Settlement in Cyprus” to a Royal District. New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology, 221-226.