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JOURNAL OF FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 101-119Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1179/0093469013Z.00000000041
Keywords
diversified agrarian ecology and economy; Bronze Age Cyprus; households; metallurgy; Politiko-Troullia; intrasite spatial patterns
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- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [1031527] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We investigate intrasite patterns of artifacts and floral and faunal data to interpret household and community behavior at the Middle Cypriot (Bronze Age) village of Politiko-Troullia in the foothills of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus. Floral evidence indicates cultivation of orchard crops (e.g., olive and grape), as well as the persistence of woodlands that provided wood for fuel. Animal management combined herding of domesticated sheep, goat, pig, and cattle with the hunting of Mesopotamian fallow deer. Metallurgical evidence points to the production of utilitarian copper tools in household workshops. Group activities are reflected by the deposition of anthropomorphic figurines, spinning and weaving equipment, and deer bones in an open courtyard setting. In sum, Politiko-Troullia exemplifies a diversified agrarian economy on a distinctly anthropogenic landscape that fostered the development of household and supra-household social differentiation in pre-urban Bronze Age Cyprus.
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