GENDER AND MORTUARY RITUAL IN CHALCOLITHIC CYPRUS

To judge from the evidence of prehistoric sites on the island, early sedentary society in Cyprus comprised relatively small, egalitarian groups of village-based subsistence-level cultivators. During the Chalcolithic period (ca. 3900–2500/2300 b.c.), however, social and economic factors such as popul...

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Published inEngendering Aphrodite p. 67
Main Author DIANE BOLGER
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published American Schools of Oriental Research 01.01.2002
Subjects
Adults
Agricultural economics
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Archaeology
Behavioral sciences
Bronze age
Burial practices
Cemeteries
Chalcolithic period
Children
Cultural anthropology
Cultural customs
Death rites
Economic disciplines
Economics
Farm economics
Farm exports
Funerary rituals
Graves
Human populations
Infants
Interment
Persons
Population studies
Rites of passage
Rituals
Social sciences
Stone age
Three age system
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Summary:To judge from the evidence of prehistoric sites on the island, early sedentary society in Cyprus comprised relatively small, egalitarian groups of village-based subsistence-level cultivators. During the Chalcolithic period (ca. 3900–2500/2300 b.c.), however, social and economic factors such as population growth, surplus storage, intensive exploitation of copper resources, and the acquisition of foreign prestige items began to contribute to higher levels of social inequality. By the middle of the third millennium and continuing into the Bronze Age, Cyprus had begun to take part in a larger geographical and economic sphere, a development that can be inferred from new patterns
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