Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1. Cultural transmissions and transformations / Joanne Clarke
Part One: Methodological Approaches to the Transmission and Transformation of Culture
2. Understanding the importance of methodology in complex archaeological interpretation / Joanne Clark
3. Constructing identities in the Neolithic Eastern Mediterranean: cultural difference and the role of architecture / Demetra Papaconstantinou
4. Becoming Bronze Age. Acculturation and enculturation in third millennium BC Cyprus / David Frankel
5. 'Ethnicities' , 'ethnonyms' and archaeological labels. Whose ideologies and whose identities? / Susan Sherratt
6. A question of reception / Jacke Phillips
7. Transmission and assimilation in context: an economic model for the selection and use of Greek and Phoenician ceramic imports in 8th century BC Cypriot society / David W. Rupp
8. The local dimension in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant: a case study using imported pottery / G. Miles Huckle
9. The impact of trade on Late Cypriot society: a contextual study of imports from Enkomi / Sophia Antoniadou
Part Two: Time and Continuity
10. Transmissions and transformations in time and the phenomenon of continuity / Joanne Clarke
11. The Neolithic revolution and the emergence of humanity: a cognitive approach to the first comprehensive world-view / Trevor Watkins
12. Life, death and the emergence of differential status in the Near Eastern Neolithic: evidence from Kfar HaHoresh, Lower Galilee, Israel / A. Nigel Goring-Morris
13. Transforming food practices in the Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant / Brian Boyd
14. Like a bull in a china shop: identity and ideology in Neolithic Cyprus / Alain Le Brun
15. House form and cultural identity in Chalcolithic Cyprus / Gordon Thomas
16. Cyprus at the dawn of the first millennium BC: cultural homogenisation versus the tyranny of ethnic identification / Maria Iacovou
Part Three: Space and Diversity
17. Crossing cultural divides: transmissions and transformations in space / Joanne Clarke
18. Identifying ethnicity from Prehistoric pottery in Ancient Egypt and the Southern Levant / Eliot Braun
19. The frontier of Egypt in the Early Bronze Age: preliminary soundings at Tell al-Sakan (Gaza Strip) / Pierre de Miroschedji and Moain Sadeq
20. Cultural homogenisation and diversity in Canaan during the 13th and 12th centuries BC / Ann E. Killebrew
21. Ideology, iconography and identity. The role of foreign goods and images in the establishment of social hierarchy in Late Bronze Age Cyprus / Jennifer M. Webb
22. Images of women and cultural assimilation in the Achaemenid Persian Levant and Cyprus / Roger Moorey
23. Minoan Asherah? / Stephanie Budin
24. The worship of Anat and Astarte in Cypriot Iron Age sanctuaries / Anja Ulbrich
25. Architectural styles and ethnic identity in Medieval to modern Cyprus / Michael Given
26. Identities and empire: Cyprus under British rule / Kylie Seretis