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Rural Landscape Practices and Authority: Iron Age Cyprus and Assyria

dc.contributor.authorCrocker, Andrew John Behling
dc.contributor.chairManning, Sturt
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKhatchadourian, Lori
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-26T14:16:51Z
dc.date.available2018-04-26T14:16:51Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-30
dc.description.abstractChanges in rural landscape practices across time are increasingly attracting attention in archaeology. Though excavation of rural sites is becoming more common, the vast majority of rural sites in the ancient Mediterranean are still understood primarily through survey. This thesis asks how the organization of hinterland sites in Cyprus changed from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age and how these rural patterns fit within Cyprus’s regional and political context. I consider the results from several survey projects in Cyprus and northern Mesopotamia. I pay special attention to the Maroni valley in Cyprus, where I apply an underutilized statistical measure, Moran’s I. I argue that a cohesive pattern for Cyprus in the Iron Age can be identified, despite previous difficulties. I also argue that the changes observed in both the Cypriot and northern Mesopotamian rural landscape practices may be understood through the ideological and political lens of the Assyrian Empire.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/X4154F7B
dc.identifier.otherCrocker_cornell_0058O_10122
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/cornell:10122
dc.identifier.otherbibid: 10361534
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/56857
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectauthority
dc.subjectArchaeological survey
dc.subjectAssyria
dc.subjectCyprus
dc.subjectGeographic Information Systems
dc.subjectGeographic information science and geodesy
dc.subjectArchaeology
dc.subjectClassical studies
dc.titleRural Landscape Practices and Authority: Iron Age Cyprus and Assyria
dc.typedissertation or thesis
dcterms.licensehttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810
thesis.degree.disciplineArchaeology
thesis.degree.grantorCornell University
thesis.degree.levelMaster of Arts
thesis.degree.nameM.A., Archaeology

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