The Environmental Setting of Cypriot Rural Sanctuaries

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

During the first millennium BCE the countryside of Cyprus was marked by a large number of extra-urban sanctuaries. Previous studies have discussed the function of these shrines in demarcating or negotiating political boundaries between the island’s city states, and their decline under Ptolemaic and Roman rule. This study seeks to investigate the environmental context of these shrines with an economic focus, as has been done in Greece, and to see whether the persistence of some sites into later periods may be due to associations between cultic practice and landscape use. Data on regional vegetation, geology, pedology, and hydrology will be combined with archaeological and iconographic data from these sites in order to assess whether any significant trends are observable.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26049