1993
DOI: 10.2307/1357246
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Insularity as a Modifier of Culture Change: The Case of Prehistoric Cyprus

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“…Accepting the idea of immigrants to Cyprus during the Chalcolithic still does not alter the evidence there were very few connections with the mainland (Stanley Price 1980). This idea is also supported by other archaeologists, such as Held (1993) and Swiny (1986:29) who states that during the Chalcolithic Cyprus seems " ... to have thrived in almost splendid isolation.". It has also been suggested that an indigenous evolution of culture, religious symbols and technology occurred without influence from outside Cyprus (peltenburg 1990;Held 1992;Knapp 1994).…”
Section: Erimi Culturementioning
confidence: 60%
“…Accepting the idea of immigrants to Cyprus during the Chalcolithic still does not alter the evidence there were very few connections with the mainland (Stanley Price 1980). This idea is also supported by other archaeologists, such as Held (1993) and Swiny (1986:29) who states that during the Chalcolithic Cyprus seems " ... to have thrived in almost splendid isolation.". It has also been suggested that an indigenous evolution of culture, religious symbols and technology occurred without influence from outside Cyprus (peltenburg 1990;Held 1992;Knapp 1994).…”
Section: Erimi Culturementioning
confidence: 60%
“…An alternative economic model argues for the long-term existence on Cyprus of mobile societies engaged in hunting fallow deer and suggests that increasing aridity was responsible for periodic shifts or reversions to hunting in preference to husbandry (Clarke, 2007a;Wasse, 2007: 62). A variant of this model sees settlement relocation as both a regulating response to ecological and environmental constraints and a means to keep settlement size and social hierarchies in check (Held, 1993;Knapp et al, 1992). A fourth possibility is that the archaeological focus on the more substantial village sites provides a limited view of the complexity of Chalcolithic economic strategies in which different, task-oriented sites may always have been a feature of settlement systems.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%