The Cemeteries at Marki : Using a looted landscape to investigate prehistoric bronze Age Cyprus

by: Sneddon, A.C.

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The cemeteries at Marki : using a looted landscape to investigate prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus
Author:Andrew C. Sneddon

BOOK DESCRIPTION
This monograph presents the results of an intensive site survey of three Prehistoric Bronze Age cemeteries in the vicinity of Marki Alonia in central Cyprus. These cemeteries contained around 370 pit and chamber tombs, and were in use from the Early Cypriot Bronze Age into the Middle Cypriot period. Each of the cemeteries has been looted since the Second World War, with the result that a sizable scatter of ceramic artefacts lies across their surfaces. It is this scatter that forms the main subject of this work. Marki's cemeteries provided an important opportunity to assess the value of looted sites to archaeologists. The taphonic processes that have affected the sites are therefore discussed in detail, with the conclusion that although cultural and natural processes can significantly affect a ceramic assemblage from a looted cemetery, they do not render them valueless. The work concludes that the ceramics interred in Prehistoric Bronze Age cemeteries differed little from those used in day-to-day life in the settlement, and that although mortuary assemblages from across Cyprus were generally similar, some idiosyncrasies existed from site to site. Additionally, the study considers issues of social complexity, chronology, burial customs, and symbolic behaviour.

Series:
BAR international series, 1028

ix, 276 pages : illustrations, map ; 30 cm.

Subjects:
Alonia
Antiquities
Ausgrabung
Bronze age
Bronze age Cyprus Marki Alonia
Bronze age Cyprus Nicosia Region
Bronzezeit
Cyprus Antiquities
Cyprus Marki Alonia Site
Cyprus Nicosia Region
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology) Cyprus Marki Alonia
Excavations (Archaeology) Cyprus Nicosia Region
Funde
Gräberfeld
Marki Alonia (Chypre : Site archéologique)
Marki Alonia (Cyprus) Antiquities
Marki Alonia (Cyprus) Tombs
Marki Alonia Site (Cyprus)
Nicosia Region (Cyprus) Antiquities
Prehistoric peoples Cyprus Marki Alonia
Salvage archaeology
Salvage archaeology Cyprus Nicosia Region
Tombs
Tombs Cyprus Nicosia Region
Μαρκί (Κύπρος) Αρχαιότητες

The Cemeteries at Marki : Using a looted landscape to investigate prehistoric bronze Age Cyprus

by: Sneddon, A.C.

• ISBN-13: 9781841714066 / 978-1-84171-406-6
• ISBN-03: 1841714062 / 1-84171-406-2
• Archaeopress, Oxford, 2002

Price: 75,00 EURO

1 copy in stock