Fabrication et utilisation de l'outillage ne matières osseuses du Néolithique de Chypre
Subtitle: Khirokitia et Cap Andreas-Kastros
By: Alexandra Legrand.
Series: BAR international series -- 1678
Publisher: Archaeopress; Available from Hadrian Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: fre
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781407301167
Subjects: Bone implements, Prehistoric -- Cyprus -- Kastros Site; Neolithic period -- Cyprus -- Kastros Site; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Cyprus -- Kastros Site; Cyprus -- Antiquities
Description: "Between the emergence of insular characters and Middle-Eastern traditional reminiscences, the Khirokitian Culture (Late Aceramic Neolithic period; from the 7th millennium to the middle of the 6th millennium cal. BC), which forms the core of this study, can be considered as the result of a colonizing process which started in Cyprus at the end of the 9th millennium cal. BC. The study of the bone industries of Khirokitia, in the south of the island, and of Cap Andreas-Kastros, at its eastern extremity which yielded a total of 2451 artefacts, allowed the author to follow two principal aims. Firstly, it was advisable to measure the part Middle-Eastern tradition played in these productions and to uncover their original character. In addition the island provided the possibility of studying sedentary agro-pastoral communities in an insular context where development occurred in a certain isolation, without a regular relationship with the mainland. The study therefore centred on the question of understanding and measuring the effect of this isolation on the nature of the relationships between these communities and their environment, and on the formation of the bone industry."--Publisher's web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-158).

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