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Placed as a stepping stone on the sea route between Europe and the Near East, Cyprus has always been a meeting place of many cultures. Through rarely united politically through many millenia of history - and for extended periods subject to foreign rule - the island nonetheless managed to maintain specific and unique identities. This publication seeks to throw new light on important aspects of the economy of Cyprus between c. 700 BC and AD 700 through a concerted study of the transport amphorae found in and around the island. These standardised containers of fired clay were commonly used for shipping foodstuffs from their places of production to the consumers in antiquity. Completely preserved or found only in fragments, such vessels are a prime source or information about the island's exports and imports of agricultural products, and ultimately about the fluctuations in the economy of Cyprus through a crucial millenium and a half of her history. The jars thus contribute both to our understanding of the changing intensities of Cypriot connections with other centres around the Mediterranean and to the documentation of regional patterning within the island itself.

Amphoras --- Pottery, Ancient --- Amphores --- Céramique antique --- Mediterranean Region --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Commerce. --- Antiquities. --- Commerce --- Antiquités --- Céramique antique --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquités --- Antiquities --- Amphoras - Mediterranean Region --- Pottery, Ancient - Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region - Commerce --- Mediterranean Region - Antiquities

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"The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socio-economic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian 'technomic' category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioural schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence"--Publisher's information.

Pottery, Ancient --- Cookware --- Cooking --- Material culture --- Social archaeology --- Céramique antique --- Batterie de cuisine --- Cuisine --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie sociale --- History --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- To 1500 --- Mediterranean Region --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Kitchen utensils --- Ethnoarchaeology --- Manners and customs --- Social archaeology. --- Social change --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- Céramique antique --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie sociale --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquités --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Ethnology --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Cookery --- Food preparation --- Food science --- Home economics --- Cookbooks --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- Cooking utensils --- Household goods --- Household utensils --- Kitchenware --- Ancient pottery --- Pottery --- Methodology --- Equipment and supplies --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Pottery, Ancient - Mediterranean Region --- Kitchen utensils - Mediterranean Region - Congresses --- Material culture - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500. --- Social archaeology - Mediterranean Region --- Ethnoarchaeology - Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Cookware - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Cooking - Social aspects - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Mediterranean Region - Social life and customs --- Cooking - Social aspects