Introduction: A Perspective

McCann, Anna Marguerite

doi:10.1515/9781400886685-005

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…It draws on a critical mass of evidence that has emerged only in the last three decades from surface surveys and infrastructure studies, underwater port and shipwreck archaeology, terrestrial excavations, and specialist studies of ceramics, numismatics, sculptures, and architecture in order to explore how ports served as centralizing loci for socio-economic change in an island province [15] (pp. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. Although this analysis could be extended to a range of known port sites of various sizes [3,34], I have decided to concentrate here on those two port cities singled out by Ammianus, Salamis and Nea Paphos, which Demetrios Michaelides has called "the leaders in the development in culture and the arts in Roman Cyprus" [44] (p. 128).…”

Section: The Ports Of Roman Cyprus As Central Placesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming Culture on an Insula Portunalis: Port Cities as Central Places in Early Roman Cyprus

Gordon

2018

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

During the Early Roman period in the Mediterranean (ca. 30 BC–330 AD), the key central places that distinguished socio-political landscapes were towns. These urban centers functioned as economic and administrative focal points that were controlled by local elites who oversaw wealth redistribution and maintained a dialectical relationship with Rome that mutually benefitted both parties. Yet, beyond providing such rudimentary observations, central place theory has recently been revised to examine how local factors, such as a place’s long-term geography and history, intersect with globalizing ones to transform settlement hierarchies as well as economic, political, and cultural landscapes. This article’s goal is to explore such intersections through a study of how port towns functioned as central places that connected globalized imperial networks to localized provincial ones within island contexts. It examines a range of material culture including, ceramics, architecture, prestige goods, and coinage from ports in Early Roman Cyprus in order to investigate how the island’s integration into Roman networks created central places that altered existing settlement types, hierarchies, and thus, local identities. Overall, this study shows how the reanalysis of central places within their unique geohistorical contexts can shed new light on both regional and state-level processes of cultural change.

show abstract

Section: The Ports Of Roman Cyprus As Central Placesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming Culture on an Insula Portunalis: Port Cities as Central Places in Early Roman Cyprus

Gordon

2018

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Introduction: A Perspective

Cited by 1 publication

References 0 publications

Transforming Culture on an Insula Portunalis: Port Cities as Central Places in Early Roman Cyprus

Transforming Culture on an Insula Portunalis: Port Cities as Central Places in Early Roman Cyprus

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About