Building in Prehistoric Cyprus

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DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_book_579
dc.creator	Amadio Marialucia
dc.title	Building in Prehistoric Cyprus. Tracing Transformations in the Built and Social Environment of Early Cypriot Communities
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The study of architecture, from the selection, procurement and processing of raw materials, to the construction and use of buildings as spaces of action and interaction, can provide major insights into the social organisation of ancient communities. Architecture, as a way of organising space and encoding meaning, plays an active role in structuring movement and socio-cultural identities and provides a range of potential avenues for exploring social motivations and rationales in particular contexts and environments, both at the individual and community levels. This book examines ‘architecture’ as key media for analysing socio-cultural narratives in prehistoric Cyprus and exploring the formation, reproduction and development of early Cypriot communities. In particular, the volume aims at moving beyond the classification of architectural forms and functions and exploring the social, ideological, economic and political transformations that characterised the Cypriot prehistory from the late Aceramic Neolithic until the advent of the Late Bronze Age (7000/6800-1750/1700 Cal BC) by using architectural evidence as the focal analytical data-set. The interest of this study is not only in how people constructed buildings but also in how buildings contributed to the construction and definition of new socio-cultural and economic identities during Cypriot prehistory. Through a detailed review of the existing architectural data-set available for prehistoric Cypriot settlements, the book aims to understand how the development of new concepts of architecture, and the increasing appearance of social, cultural and economic forms of complexity are mutually constituted.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi ciprioti
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-685-5
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-10-03
dc.dateAccepted	2022-10-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-07-26
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-686-2/
dc.identifier.issn	2724-279X
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3648
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-686-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-685-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Architecture
dc.subject	Built environment
dc.subject	Multiscalar analysis
dc.subject	Prehistoric Cyprus

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Tracing Transformations in the Built and Social Environment of Early Cypriot Communities

Marialucia Amadio Università di Pisa, Italia

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abstract

The study of architecture, from the selection, procurement and processing of raw materials, to the construction and use of buildings as spaces of action and interaction, can provide major insights into the social organisation of ancient communities. Architecture, as a way of organising space and encoding meaning, plays an active role in structuring movement and socio-cultural identities and provides a range of potential avenues for exploring social motivations and rationales in particular contexts and environments, both at the individual and community levels. This book examines ‘architecture’ as key media for analysing socio-cultural narratives in prehistoric Cyprus and exploring the formation, reproduction and development of early Cypriot communities. In particular, the volume aims at moving beyond the classification of architectural forms and functions and exploring the social, ideological, economic and political transformations that characterised the Cypriot prehistory from the late Aceramic Neolithic until the advent of the Late Bronze Age (7000/6800-1750/1700 Cal BC) by using architectural evidence as the focal analytical data-set. The interest of this study is not only in how people constructed buildings but also in how buildings contributed to the construction and definition of new socio-cultural and economic identities during Cypriot prehistory. Through a detailed review of the existing architectural data-set available for prehistoric Cypriot settlements, the book aims to understand how the development of new concepts of architecture, and the increasing appearance of social, cultural and economic forms of complexity are mutually constituted.

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Oct. 3, 2023

Accepted

Oct. 13, 2022

Submitted

July 26, 2022

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978-88-6969-686-2

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978-88-6969-685-5

Keywords

Architecture • Prehistoric Cyprus • Multiscalar analysis • Built environment

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