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 in | Engendering Aphrodite p. 67 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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American Schools of Oriental Research
01.01.2002
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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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ISBN: | 9780897570596 0897570596 |