Cyprus and Sardinia in the Late Bronze Age: Nuragic table ware at Hala Sultan Tekke

Gradoli, Maria Giuseppina; Waiman-Barak, Paula; Bürge, Teresa; Dunseth, Zachary C.; Sterba, Johannes H.; Schiavo, Fulvia Lo; Perra, Mauro; Sabatini, Serena; Fischer, Peter M.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102479

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“…The role of the Sardinian bowls and the large fragment of a (cooking?) pot (Bürge and Fischer 2020;Gradoli et al 2020) in the 'offering pits' Pit B, Z6 and Z7 is particularly interesting, since besides these only a few Sardinian vessels, all of them jars, have been found or were identified on Cyprus, i.e., at Pyla Kokkinokremos (Bretschneider et al 2017), roughly 17km east of Hala Sultan Tekke. The pits of Hala Sultan Tekke are the only context where these small, shallow bowls have been found so far.…”

Section: Discussion: Tradition and Insularity Innovation And Connectivity Reflected In The Mortuary Programmementioning

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Mortuary Landscapes Revisited: Dynamics of Insularity and Connectivity in Mortuary Ritual, Feasting, and Commemoration in Late Bronze Age Cyprus

Bürge

2021

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The aim of the paper is to discuss mortuary contexts and possible related ritual features as parts of sacred landscapes in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Since the island was an important node in the Eastern Mediterranean economic network, it will be explored whether and how connectivity and insularity may be reflected in ritual and mortuary practices. The article concentrates on the extra-urban cemetery of Area A at the harbour city of Hala Sultan Tekke, where numerous pits and other shafts with peculiar deposits of complete and broken objects as well as faunal remains have been found. These will be evaluated and set in relation to the contexts of the nearby tombs to reconstruct ritual activities in connection with funerals and possible rituals of commemoration or ancestral rites. The evidence from Hala Sultan Tekke and other selected Late Cypriot sites demonstrates that these practices were highly dynamic in integrating and adopting external objects, symbols, and concepts, while, nevertheless, definite island-specific characteristics remain visible.

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Section: Discussion: Tradition and Insularity Innovation And Connectivity Reflected In The Mortuary Programmementioning

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Mortuary Landscapes Revisited: Dynamics of Insularity and Connectivity in Mortuary Ritual, Feasting, and Commemoration in Late Bronze Age Cyprus

Bürge

2021

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“…Copper ingots of Cypriot origin, known as oxhide ingots, likely reached the island in good number during the LBA but are frequently documented in contexts dating to the early first millennium BC (Lo Schiavo et al 2009a). Sardinian pottery has been recovered at the port of Kommos in southern Crete in association with material from Cyprus, while pottery from Sardinia has been recovered at Pyla Kokkinokremos and Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus (Gradoli et al 2020).…”

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“…Indeed, Cyprus was one of the more resilient areas of the Mediterranean, where, despite the destruction and abandonment of several major settlements c. 1200 BC, more diverse and competitive smaller-scale political units had emerged by 1100 BC, so that the island retained important external trade links into the first millennium BC (Knapp and Manning 2016, p. 133;Knapp and Meyer 2020;Wallace 2018, p. 334). The argument for newcomers to Cyprus from the west is compelling, though this was clearly not a wave of migration and was more probably a result of participants in new networks that linked a variety of nonlocal groups with local communities, at settlements such as Pyla Kokkinokremos, Maa-Palaeokastro, and Hala Sultan Tekke (Gradoli et al 2020;Wallace 2018, pp. 344-345).…”

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Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC)

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The Late Bronze Age (1700–900 BC) represents an extremely dynamic period for Mediterranean Europe. Here, we provide a comparative survey of the archaeological record of over half a millennium within the entire northern littoral of the Mediterranean, from Greece to Iberia, incorporating archaeological, archaeometric, and bioarchaeological evidence. The picture that emerges, while certainly fragmented and not displaying a unique trajectory, reveals a number of broad trends in aspects as different as social organization, trade, transcultural phenomena, and human mobility. The contribution of such trends to the processes that caused the end of the Bronze Age is also examined. Taken together, they illustrate how networks of interaction, ranging from the short to the long range, became a defining aspect of the “Middle Sea” during this time, influencing the lives of the communities that inhabited its northern shore. They also highlight the importance of research that crosses modern boundaries for gaining a better understanding of broad comparable dynamics.

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“…The discovery of Sardinian Nuragic pottery at Hala Sultan Tekke is very recent and in the course of publication. [1,2] As discussed in the introduction, the harbor site of Hala Sultan Tekke was a LC urban settlement of considerable size, placed in a strategic position, dominating one of the few natural harbors of the Cypriot southern costs. As demonstrated by the many finds, Hala must have been exceedingly significant and well-integrated on international routes of maritime exchange and trade.…”

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“…They represent the first examples of this kind of pottery ever reported from Cyprus. [1,2] Other Nuragic ceramics are known from Sicily, Crete, and Cyprus (see below), but, so far, fine drinking ware had not been found outside the island.…”

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Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus

Sabatini

Schiavo

2020

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Since the 1980s, extensive archeological studies have provided us with knowledge about the multifaceted relations between Nuragic Sardinia and Bronze Age Cyprus. During the winter of 2019, Nuragic tableware of Sardinian origin was discovered at the harbor site of Hala Sultan Tekke, on the southeastern coast of Cyprus, providing the opportunity to return to the question of the reasons behind this presence. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the characteristics and role of Sardinian maritime "enterprises" in the long-distance metal trade in the Mediterranean and beyond, including continental Europe. An array of new provenance studies demonstrates the complexity of the Bronze Age metal trade and, taking a maritime perspective, provides the opportunity to reveal how strategically positioned actors such as Nuragic Sardinia managed to dominate sea-borne routes, and gained a prominent and independent international position.

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Cyprus and Sardinia in the Late Bronze Age: Nuragic table ware at Hala Sultan Tekke

Cited by 9 publications

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Mortuary Landscapes Revisited: Dynamics of Insularity and Connectivity in Mortuary Ritual, Feasting, and Commemoration in Late Bronze Age Cyprus

Mortuary Landscapes Revisited: Dynamics of Insularity and Connectivity in Mortuary Ritual, Feasting, and Commemoration in Late Bronze Age Cyprus

Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC)

Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus

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