Ancient and Preindustrial Ceramics from Cyprus: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Research Advances (Global Perspectives on Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology)

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of ceramic materials from ancient and pre-industrial Cyprus, integrating scientific approaches and research advances across disciplines such as archaeology, materials science, art history, and ethnography. While existing research has often concentrated on individual wares, styles, sites, or periods, this volume brings together a wide range of case studies that showcase the richness and diversity of Cypriot ceramic traditions, highlighting how localised investigations can inform broader discussion of technological practice, social meaning, and cultural interactions across time and space.Employing interdisciplinary and diachronic perspectives, it traces transformations in ceramic traditions of the island, from their earliest developments to their persistence into the modern era.It highlights not only shifts in production techniques and technological practices, but also the wider social meanings attached to pottery as an everyday