[...]... Mediterranean Islands, Insularity, and Identity Background and Current Research 2 Issues, Agendas, and Archaeological Constructs Island Archaeology, Insularity, and Island History xv xx 1 3 10 13 14 The Island Paradox 19 Insularity and Connectivity 22 Islandscapes 24 Island Identities 27 Social Identity and Ethnicity, Migration, Acculturation, and Hybridization 30 Introduction 31 Social Identity 31 Social Identity. .. Connectivity, and Social Identity on Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus 341 345 348 The Prehistoric Bronze Age 348 The Protohistoric Bronze Age 357 Early Iron Age Cyprus 368 8 Islanders, Insularity, and Identity in the Mediterranean Island Identities Island Identities: Cyprus and the Mediterranean 373 373 376 The Mediterranean and its Boundaries 382 Comparative Studies and Mediterranean Island Archaeology... many and distinctive cultural developments, and how factors such as insularity and local enterprise impacted on the islanders’ social identities, ideologies, iconographies, and economies Adopting a conceptually new and distinctive approach, this study seeks speciWcally to examine insularity, connectivity, and island identities on prehistoric and protohistoric Cyprus In a very preliminary manner, and. .. consider how factors such as insularity, connectivity, ethnicity, and hybridity impacted on island society and island identity, and how islanders might have invoked insularity as a ‘resistant’ identity (Broodbank 2000: 33) Throughout I attempt to assess how islanders used material culture consciously to fashion their identities and to establish island social, economic, and political practices M E D... Broodbank 2000)? Insularity is historically contingent and socially constructed, like island identity itself, and must be evaluated from the islanders’ perspective of both land and sea This study considers insularity in the context of broader island–mainland or inter-island relations (connectivity) , to gain insights into the ways that distance and the exotic impact on people, materials, and ideologies... with Cyprus 300 Ku-pi-ri-jo/a, A-ra-si-jo, and Cyprus 303 Alashiya Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean 307 Economy and Polity 307 Society and Polity 315 The Political Organization of Cyprus/ Alashiya 324 An Historical Overview of ProBA Cyprus: Texts and Archaeology 335 xiv Contents ˇ Elishah, ’lsyy and Iadnana: The Early Iron Age of Cyprus Archaeology, Texts, and Iron Age History 7 Insularity, Connectivity, ... of islanders? How does insularity aVect an islander’s identity and the course of people’s everyday lives? How and why does island 14 Issues, Agendas, Archaeological Constructs material culture diVer from that of mainlands? Why do people choose to live on islands and how do they manage in an insular setting? What sort of relations exist between island societies, or between islanders and non-islanders?... socially dynamic and historically contingent factor of insularity Because no single island constitutes the ideal unit of analysis, and because there may be as many social (and ethnic) boundaries, or connections, within an island as there are between an island and near or distant mainlands and other islands, these issues warrant attention from a comparative perspective ISLAND ARCHAE OLOGY, INSULARITY, A... Bronze Age (PreBA) Cyprus: A Social Approach 68 Spatial Organization and Cultural Sequences 69 Production and Exchange 74 Production, Exchange, and Identity 81 Material Culture and Mortuary Practices 82 Mortuary Practices, Materiality, and Identity Representations Representation and Identity Individuals in Archaeology? 86 87 92 92 Individuals in the Prehistoric Bronze Age 95 Individuals and Identity Broader... diachronic history of Cyprus and precludes attempts to consider how insularity and local enterprise impacted on the islanders’ identity (or identities) and the emergence of a complex, hierarchical society The indigenous inhabitants of Cyprus remain unseen and unheard from such a perspective, and this at a time when ‘multivocality’ and the local invigorate and structure both historical and social scientiWc . Agendas, and Archaeological Constructs 13 Island Archaeolog y, Insularity, and Island History 14 The Island Paradox 19 Insularity and Connectivity 22 Islandscapes 24 Island Identities 27 Social Identity. and Social Identity on Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus 348 The Prehistoric Bronze Age 348 The Protohistoric Bronze Age 357 Early Iron Age Cyprus 368 8. Islanders, Insularity, and Identity. class="bi x0 y0 w0 h1" alt="" PREHISTORIC & PROTOHISTORIC CYPRUS This page intentionally left blank Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus Identity, Insularity, and Connectivity A. BERNARD KNAPP 1 3 Great