Cyprus and the Aegean in the Early Iron Age. The Legacy of Nicolas Coldstream

Edited by Maria Iacovou

City: Nicosia

Year: 2013

Publisher: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation

Description: Paperback, 397 p., numerous figures, 24 cm

From the introduction

On the 13th of December 2010, a small group of Early Iron Age specialists from Greece and Cyprus, who represent two generations of Greek scholars that have followed in the footsteps of Professor J. N. Coldstream, met at the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus to honor his memory. With this meeting, the University of Cyprus and especially the members of the Archaeological Research Unit, which in the last decade has become the base of the School of Cypriot Archaeology, wished to acknowledge a major debt owed to the late Professor Coldstream: in the 1990s, as chairman or member of many selection committees, Coldstream played a decisive role in electing the first professors of archaeology for the Department of History and Archaeology. This alone would have been reason enough to devote a Workshop in his memory. There was, however, a less obvious but more intimate purpose behind the meeting—which is reflected in, and should also explain, the choice of speakers—as we wished to pay tribute to aspects of his academic contribution that have had a long-termimpact on the archaeology of Cyprus and also on the careers of his Cypriot students. His productive and creative association with Cyprus, from where he regularly harvested a rich collection of data, which he would then share with his circle of ‘disciples’, fostered the opening of channels of communication and collaboration between Greek colleagues working in the Early Iron Age of Greece and Cyprus.

Contents

Foreword [9]
Editor’s Introduction: Nicolas the symposiast and his brood of Greek symposiasts [11]
Abbreviations [21]
Chronological Table [23]

Despina Pilides, John Nicolas Coldstream: a personal appreciation of his legacy [25-32]

Nota Kourou, Phoenicia, Cyprus and the Aegean in the Early Iron Age: J. N. Coldstream’s contribution and the current state of research [33-52]

Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian, Euboean mobility towards the north: new evidence from the Sporades [53-75] PDF

Antonia Livieratou, Phokis and East Lokris in the light of interregional contacts at the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age [77-127] PDF

George Papasavvas, Cretan bronze stands of Cypriot types from sanctuaries and cemeteries: Cretan society in the Early Iron Age [129-163] PDF

Antonis Kotsonas, ‘Creto-Cypriot’ and ‘Cypro-Phoenician’ complexities in the archaeology of interaction between Crete and Cyprus [155-181] PDF
Giorgos Bourogiannis, Pondering the Cypro-Phoenician conundrum. The Aegean view of a bewildering term [183-205] PDF

Maria Iacovou, External and internal migrations during the 12th century BC. Setting the stage for an economically successful Early Iron Age in Cyprus [207-227] PDF

Vasiliki Kassianidou, The origin and use of metals in Iron Age Cyprus [229-259] PDF

Anna Satraki, Cypriot polities in the Early Iron Age [261-283] PDF

Giorgos Papantoniou, Cypriot sanctuaries and religion in the Early Iron Age: views from before and after [285-319] PDF

Anna P. Georgiadou, La production céramique de Kition au Chypro-Géometrique I [321-344]

Vicky Vlachou, Aspects of hunting in early Greece and Cyprus: a re-examination of the ‘comb motif ’ [345-370] PDF

Manolis Mikrakis, The ‘originality of ancient Cypriot art’ and the individuality of performing practices in protohistoric Cyprus [371-393] PDF

List of Contributors