Local Exchange in Prehistoric Cyprus: An Initial Assessment of Picrolite

Peltenburg, Edgar

doi:10.2307/1357265

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“…The latter was widely used for the manufacture of figurines, pendants, beads, and vessels in the Middle Chalcolithic (Xenophontos 1991;Peltenburg 1991b). The latter was widely used for the manufacture of figurines, pendants, beads, and vessels in the Middle Chalcolithic (Xenophontos 1991;Peltenburg 1991b).…”

Section: Kokkinorotsos Ceramics In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Excavations at PolitikoKokkinorotsos. A Chalcolithic Hunting Station in Cyprus

Webb¹,

Frankel²,

Croft³

et al. 2009

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Recent excavations at a small Chalcolithic site in central Cyprus show that it was occupied about 2880–2670 cal BC. Fallow deer form the major component of the substantial faunal sample: both these and other animals were hunted. The chipped stone, too, fits with a model of intensive meat exploitation. The lack of formal architecture supports the general model of a seasonally or intermittently used hunters' village. Plant remains and a limited array of ground stone tools, however, indicate that domesticated plants were processed and consumed, although probably not harvested at the site, while large quantities of pottery also show a wider range of activities. These data and observations can be explained by several models, which emphasise either broad processes and historical developments or more local patterns of varied site-types and activities in different parts of the island or in different ecological zones, providing an important insight into the diversity and complexity of cultural systems in the early 3rd millennium BC.

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Section: Kokkinorotsos Ceramics In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Excavations at PolitikoKokkinorotsos. A Chalcolithic Hunting Station in Cyprus

Webb¹,

Frankel²,

Croft³

et al. 2009

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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“…Lastly, stone vases, figurines, and jewellery (beads, pendants) are found in all periods. Particularly on Cyprus, beads, pendants, small vessels, and figurines were often made of picrolite, a soft, blue and green stone transferred through exchange networks from the Aceramic period onward (Peltenburg 1991). On Minoan Crete several fine stone vases were made from obsidian from Giali in the Aegean, a type of translucent obsidian with white spherules (Betancourt 1999; see Fig.…”

Section: Ground Stone Technologiesmentioning

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Lithic Technologies and Use

Karimali¹

2005

The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory

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“…One e.)<ample of this is the adoption by Bronze Age communities of picrolite as a valued raw material. Chalco lithic use and distribution of this soft stone for pendants and other, presumably valued, items have been well documented (Peltenburg 1991;Xenophontos 1991). It was adopted by and used for a range of objects in the Philia facies of the early Bronze Age (Webb and Frankel 1999:41).…”

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Migration and ethnicity in prehistoric Cyprus: Technology ashabitus

Frankel

2000

Eur. j. archaeol.

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During the third millennium cal BC, there were major changes in many aspects of Cypriot material culture, technology and economy which characterize the division between the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age on the island. Many innovations can be traced to Anatolian antecedents. These include a very wide array of domestic as well as agricultural and industrial technologies. Their nature and range make it possible to argue strongly for the movement of people to the island, rather than for other mechanisms of technology transfer and culture change. This identification of an intrusive group, with distinctive patterns of behaviour (habitus), opens up questions of prehistoric ethnicity, and the processes by which the initial maintenance of different lifeways by indigenous and settler communities eventually gave way to a common cultural system.

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Local Exchange in Prehistoric Cyprus: An Initial Assessment of Picrolite

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

Excavations at PolitikoKokkinorotsos. A Chalcolithic Hunting Station in Cyprus

Excavations at PolitikoKokkinorotsos. A Chalcolithic Hunting Station in Cyprus

Lithic Technologies and Use

Migration and ethnicity in prehistoric Cyprus: Technology ashabitus

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