Dear All,
Apologies for any cross-posting.
Please find below details on the recent publication of a volume I edited
on the early occupation of the Mediterranean islands, some of which have
a zooarchaeological perspective.
The First Mediterranean Islanders: Initial Occupation and Survival
Strategies
edited by Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou 2011 (Oxford: Oxford University School
of Archaeology Monographs)
The present volume provides a much needed contribution to island
archaeology by examining the characteristics of the initial occupation
of the Mediterranean islands. It enhances our understanding of the
mechanisms, strategies, cultural contingencies and social alliances that
enabled the consolidation of a permanent human presence in these
settings. Particular attention is given to small islands, which can
present increased demands on people to adapt and survive due to their
more marginal environments, and on islands where recent research has led
to a reassessment of the date and character of initial occupation. The
research presented draws on examples from Cyprus, the Cyclades, the
Adriatic, the Aeolian islands, and Malta, together with overviews of the
Mediterranean and in comparison to Oceania.
The volume throws into relief the multi-layered and multi-dimensional
theatre provided by the Mediterranean, drawing attention to the
complexities of island occupation. The notion of fluid group identities
created through practice in the 'small worlds' of the Neolithic
highlights the necessity for an emphasis on the process of occupation
and consolidation of island inhabitation. This volume will provide new
perspectives and challenges for island colonisation both in the
Mediterranean and further afield, the Neolithic period, and the
development of archaeological theory.
Contents:
1 Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou: Introduction: the first Mediterranean islanders
2 Helen Dawson: Island colonisation: settling the Neolithic question
3 Alan Simmons: Re-writing the colonisation of Cyprus: tales of hippo
hunters and cow herders
4 Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou: Initial occupation of the Cycladic islands in
the Neolithic: strategies for survival
5 Stašo Forenbaher and Timothy Kaiser: Palagruža and the spread of
farming in the Adriatic
6 Elena Flavia Castagnino Berlinghieri: Subsistence, mechanisms of
interaction and human mobility in the Neolithic western Mediterranean:
the nature of the occupation of Lipari (Aeolian islands, Sicily)
7 Anthony Bonanno: The lure of the islands: Malta’s first Neolithic
colonisers
8 Atholl Anderson: Islands from the South: an Oceanian perspective on
island colonisation
9 Chris Gosden: The small worlds of the (pre-)Neolithic Mediterranean
http://cambridge.academia.edu/NelliePhocaCosmetatou/Books
Where you can download Chapters 1 and 4.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Mediterranean-Islanders-Occupation-Strategies/dp/1905905203/
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/92448//Location/Oxbow
I hope you find it of interest,
With best wishes for the festive season and the New Year,
Nellie
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Dr. Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou
Lecturer in Human Evolution
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies
University of Cambridge
Fitzwilliam Street
Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
Tel: +44 1223 764 702
Fax: +44 1223 764 710
http://www.human-evol.cam.ac.uk/
"Engrave yourself somewhere, in any possible way,
and then again erase yourself with magnanimity"
O. Elytis
"I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people
who can see, but do not see."
J. Saramago
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