The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to Ca 1200 BC

The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to Ca 1200 BC

Giampaolo Graziadi

Collana | Studi ciprioti
Volume 4 | Monografia | The Aegean and Cyprus  

Compared to all other Bronze Age Mediterranean regions, Cyprus is the island that established the closest contacts with the Aegean, and the interaction between Cyprus and the Aegean has therefore clearly been a subject of intense discussion. Assuming that Bronze Age trade was not unidirectional, this book provides a review of the available archaeological data from the third millennium BC to ca 1200 BC from both the Aegean and Cypriot perspectives. The relevant finds from the Aegean regions and Cyprus are considered here in order to discuss the dynamics of contacts between the two areas leading up to the period around 1200 BC when dramatic changes occurred in their relationships.

dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-857-6
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2025-04-17
dc.dateAccepted	2024-08-26
dc.dateSubmitted	2024-06-10
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-858-3/
dc.identifier.issn	2724-279X
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3648
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-858-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-857-6

• Preface
  Two Given Points, Infinite Straight Lines
• Luca Bombardieri
• 17 Aprile 2025

• Introduction
• 17 Aprile 2025

• 1 • An Overview of Theoretical Approaches to Interaction
• Francesca Nani
• 17 Aprile 2025

• 2 • Aegean and Cypriot Comparative Chronology
• 17 Aprile 2025

• 3 • Interaction Period 1: The Earliest Relations Between the Aegean and Cyprus
• 17 Aprile 2025

• 4 • Interaction Period 2: Contacts Between the Aegean And Cyprus From the End of Middle Bronze Age to the Early Late Bronze Age
• 17 Aprile 2025

• 5 • Interaction Period 3: Contacts Between the Aegean and Cyprus From Ca 1450 to Ca 1300 BC
• 17 Aprile 2025

• 6 • Interaction Period 4: Contacts Between the Aegean and Cyprus from Ca 1340 to Ca 1200 BC
• 17 Aprile 2025

• 7 • Conclusions: The Development of Cypro-Aegean Interaction from the Third Millennium BC Until Ca 1200 BC
• 17 Aprile 2025

• Appendix
  An Examination of Cyprus-Aegean Connections Based on Nautical Considerations
• Angiolo Querci
• 17 Aprile 2025