The results of recent exca.ations at Poliochni, on the island of Lemnos, carried out by the Italian Archaeological School at Athens in 1993-1998, provide an opponunity to move beyond current interpretative paradigms about the concepts of insularity. Westerm Anatolia, the coastal region of Eastern Macedonia and Cyclades represent three significant directional axes which mark the patterns of exchange, interaction and , occasionally, isolation of insular communities. This paper discusses the insular colonization procedures on the island of Lemnos in comparison with those in other pans of the Non hern Aegean at the end of the Founh Millennium B.C., in order to understand the centrality and the marginality of the inter-island and islandmainland relations. During the Black Period the archaeological records suggests movement of peoples coming from Western Anatolia and a point of interest is the absence of relationships between Cyclades and the Nonhero Aegean. In the next Blue Period the emergence of a wide fortified settlement suggests the transformation of the village into a well-planned settlement.
Il lavoro prende in esame la complessa rete di relazioni e fenomeni cultuali che, alla fine del IV millennio a.C., segnano nell'Egeo settentrionale l'emergere delle più antiche forme di insediamenti su vasta scala per i quali appare legittimo usare il termine 'protourbano'.
Island Isolation and Cultural Interaction in EBA Northern Aegean: a Case Study from Poliochni (Lemnos)
Cultraro M
2004
Abstract
The results of recent exca.ations at Poliochni, on the island of Lemnos, carried out by the Italian Archaeological School at Athens in 1993-1998, provide an opponunity to move beyond current interpretative paradigms about the concepts of insularity. Westerm Anatolia, the coastal region of Eastern Macedonia and Cyclades represent three significant directional axes which mark the patterns of exchange, interaction and , occasionally, isolation of insular communities. This paper discusses the insular colonization procedures on the island of Lemnos in comparison with those in other pans of the Non hern Aegean at the end of the Founh Millennium B.C., in order to understand the centrality and the marginality of the inter-island and islandmainland relations. During the Black Period the archaeological records suggests movement of peoples coming from Western Anatolia and a point of interest is the absence of relationships between Cyclades and the Nonhero Aegean. In the next Blue Period the emergence of a wide fortified settlement suggests the transformation of the village into a well-planned settlement.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
