Books by Katie Kearns
Cambridge University Press, 2023
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The ninth to the fifth centuries BCE saw a series of significant historical transformations across Cyprus, especially in the growth of towns and in developments in the countryside. In this book, Catherine Kearns argues that changing patterns of urban and rural sedentism drove social changes as diverse communities cultivated new landscape practices. Climatic changes fostered uneven relationships between people, resources like land, copper, and wood, and increasingly important places like rural sanctuaries and cemeteries. Bringing together a range of archaeological, textual, and scientific evidence, the book examines landscapes, environmental history, and rural practices to argue for their collective instrumentality in the processes driving Iron Age political formations. It suggests how rural households managed the countryside, interacted with the remains of earlier generations, and created gathering spaces alongside the development of urban authorities. Offering new insights into landscape archaeologies, Dr Kearns contributes to current debates about society's relationships with changing environments.
New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology highlights current scholarship that employs a range of new ... more New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology highlights current scholarship that employs a range of new techniques, methods, and theoretical approaches to questions related to the archaeology of the prehistoric and protohistoric periods on the island of Cyprus. From revolutions in radiocarbon dating, to the compositional analysis of ceramic remains, to the digital applications used to study landscape histories at broad scales, to rethinking human-environment/climate interrelationships, the last few decades of research on Cyprus invite inquiry into the implications of these novel archaeological methods for the field and its future directions.
This edited volume gathers together a new generation of scholars who offer a revealing exploration of these insights as well as challenges to big questions in Cypriot archaeology, such as the rise of social complexity, urban settlement histories, and changes in culture and identity. These enduring topics provide the foundation for investigating the benefits and challenges of twenty-first-century methods and conceptual frameworks. Divided into three main sections related to critical chronological transitions, from earliest prehistory to the development of autonomous kingdoms during the Iron Age, each contribution exposes and engages with a different advance in studies of material culture, absolute dating, paleoenvironmental analysis, and spatial studies using geographic information systems.
From rethinking the chronological transitions of the Early Bronze Age, to exploring regional craft production regimes of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, to locating Iron Age cemeteries through archival topographic maps, these exciting and pioneering authors provide innovative ways of thinking about Cypriot archaeology and its relationship to the wider discipline.
Contributors: Georgia Marina Andreou, Brown University; Stella Diakou, Trinity College and University of Cyprus; Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou, University of Cyprus; David Frankel, La Trobe University; Catherine Kearns, University of Chicago; Sturt W. Manning, Cornell University; Eilís Monahan, Cornell University; Charalambos Paraskeva, University of Cyprus; Anna Satraki, Department of Antiquities of Cyprus; Matthew Spigelman, Acme Heritage Consultants
Journal Articles and Book Chapters by Katie Kearns
TAPA, 2018
summary: Cyprus was a principal venue in classical antiquity where Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern... more summary: Cyprus was a principal venue in classical antiquity where Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern worlds encountered one another, and yet it remains a type of backwater, excluded from dominant historical narratives of the first millennia b.c.e. and c.e. I argue that this construct reproduces ancient otherings of the island, which developed via persistent yet fluid topoi of liminality. Three registers of etic spatial imaginations – location and distance, economic geography, and royal, urban histories – reveal how its enigmatic depictions endured. I conclude by addressing their durability in modern scholarship, which situates Cyprus outside the ambit of the classical world.
History Compass, 2017
The last two decades have seen increasing scientific and humanistic research about anthropogenic ... more The last two decades have seen increasing scientific and humanistic research about anthropogenic impacts on earth systems such as climate , leading to a controversial proposal that we are living in an Anthropocene epoch, when humans have become unprecedented forces of global change. The status of the Anthropocene as an historiographical period poses an opportunity to consider how archeologists and historians conceive of environmental and social change in Mediterranean antiquity. Scholarship has tended to focus on regional landscapes or large‐scale climatic accounts of the rise and fall of societies and less on the politics and social dimensions of human–environment relationships. Although bridging the small and large scales of these interactions poses challenges, recent research on the island of Cyprus during the Archaic period highlights the possibilities of an archeological approach to the intersections between social and environmental Mediterranean histories and their material contexts.
J.R.B. Stewart: An Archaeological Legacy, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology Vol. 139 (eds. J. Webb, A.B. Knapp, A. McCarthy), 2013
The Cultural History of Gardens: Vol. I, Antiquity (ed. Kathryn Gleason), 2013
Increasingly, archaeologists have recognized that space and place are fundamental, not epiphenome... more Increasingly, archaeologists have recognized that space and place are fundamental, not epiphenomenal, to past social and political formations (Smith 2003; Fisher 2009a; Bradley 1993;. Recent studies of architectural spaces have shown that by integrating tools and theories from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, geography, urban planning, psychology, environment-behavioral studies and phenomenology, archaeologists can investigate the dynamic interrelationships between humans and built spaces (Fisher 2009a; Abstract Recent studies of past built environments have shown that archaeologists can investigate successfully the role of buildings in constructions of identity and the production of society. Yet despite this attention to social life, ancient architectural forms are often still viewed as blueprints of ethnic style. Postcolonial arguments for hybridization, while contesting culture-historical labels, can still associate built forms with essentialized signatures. The ongoing interactions of social actors and materials within the built environment, and the resulting negotiations of boundaries and claims to distinction, require more consideration. In this study, I argue that an approach to hybridizing built forms actively, one that avoids issues related to ethnicity and instead emphasizes the social lives of buildings and the chaîne opératoire of construction, offers a framework for investigating these dynamics over time, within contesting sociopolitical apparatuses. I use a case study from a debated imperial context in the eastern Mediterranean-the fifth-century bc monumental complex at Vouni, on Cyprus-to examine the built environment as implicated in the production of social boundaries and the reorganization of power relations.
Co-authored Publications by Katie Kearns
Antiquity Project Gallery, 2013
During the Late Bronze Age (1650–1100 BC) Cyprus witnessed an increase in social, political and e... more During the Late Bronze Age (1650–1100 BC) Cyprus witnessed an increase in social, political and economic complexity, with settlements becoming urban in composition and international in scope (e.g. Keswani 1996; Knapp 2008). These 'urban' settlements and associated elite place-making both created and defined a new Late Cypriot society (Fisher 2009). Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios (K-AD) is among the sites key to understanding this pivotal transformation and settlement type. Here we report on the use of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to locate and map previously unknown structures at K-AD.
The transformations entangled in becoming an urban society are increasingly attracting attention ... more The transformations entangled in becoming an urban society are increasingly attracting attention in archaeology , including in the Mediterranean. The place-making entailed in the development of urban settlement represents a fundamental change for a society; it creates over time a new urban mentalité and habitus, such that the urban fabric and place become an active part of social life, and its reproduction. While urbanism does not require the 'state', urban settlements form key venues for social, economic and political change leading to the potential development of sedentary early complex polities. For several areas of the world and in multiple periods, there are increasingly sophisticated studies of urbanisation. To date, Cyprus has received relatively little attention—but, as increasingly recognised, urbanisation was central to the island's rapid change into, and emergence as, a substantial element of the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean world. We consider and critique the case of urbanisation on Late Bronze Age Cyprus and highlight its importance to Cypriot
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Books by Katie Kearns
The ninth to the fifth centuries BCE saw a series of significant historical transformations across Cyprus, especially in the growth of towns and in developments in the countryside. In this book, Catherine Kearns argues that changing patterns of urban and rural sedentism drove social changes as diverse communities cultivated new landscape practices. Climatic changes fostered uneven relationships between people, resources like land, copper, and wood, and increasingly important places like rural sanctuaries and cemeteries. Bringing together a range of archaeological, textual, and scientific evidence, the book examines landscapes, environmental history, and rural practices to argue for their collective instrumentality in the processes driving Iron Age political formations. It suggests how rural households managed the countryside, interacted with the remains of earlier generations, and created gathering spaces alongside the development of urban authorities. Offering new insights into landscape archaeologies, Dr Kearns contributes to current debates about society's relationships with changing environments.
This edited volume gathers together a new generation of scholars who offer a revealing exploration of these insights as well as challenges to big questions in Cypriot archaeology, such as the rise of social complexity, urban settlement histories, and changes in culture and identity. These enduring topics provide the foundation for investigating the benefits and challenges of twenty-first-century methods and conceptual frameworks. Divided into three main sections related to critical chronological transitions, from earliest prehistory to the development of autonomous kingdoms during the Iron Age, each contribution exposes and engages with a different advance in studies of material culture, absolute dating, paleoenvironmental analysis, and spatial studies using geographic information systems.
From rethinking the chronological transitions of the Early Bronze Age, to exploring regional craft production regimes of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, to locating Iron Age cemeteries through archival topographic maps, these exciting and pioneering authors provide innovative ways of thinking about Cypriot archaeology and its relationship to the wider discipline.
Contributors: Georgia Marina Andreou, Brown University; Stella Diakou, Trinity College and University of Cyprus; Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou, University of Cyprus; David Frankel, La Trobe University; Catherine Kearns, University of Chicago; Sturt W. Manning, Cornell University; Eilís Monahan, Cornell University; Charalambos Paraskeva, University of Cyprus; Anna Satraki, Department of Antiquities of Cyprus; Matthew Spigelman, Acme Heritage Consultants
Journal Articles and Book Chapters by Katie Kearns
Co-authored Publications by Katie Kearns
Book Reviews by Katie Kearns
Outreach by Katie Kearns
Talks and Conference Papers by Katie Kearns
The ninth to the fifth centuries BCE saw a series of significant historical transformations across Cyprus, especially in the growth of towns and in developments in the countryside. In this book, Catherine Kearns argues that changing patterns of urban and rural sedentism drove social changes as diverse communities cultivated new landscape practices. Climatic changes fostered uneven relationships between people, resources like land, copper, and wood, and increasingly important places like rural sanctuaries and cemeteries. Bringing together a range of archaeological, textual, and scientific evidence, the book examines landscapes, environmental history, and rural practices to argue for their collective instrumentality in the processes driving Iron Age political formations. It suggests how rural households managed the countryside, interacted with the remains of earlier generations, and created gathering spaces alongside the development of urban authorities. Offering new insights into landscape archaeologies, Dr Kearns contributes to current debates about society's relationships with changing environments.
This edited volume gathers together a new generation of scholars who offer a revealing exploration of these insights as well as challenges to big questions in Cypriot archaeology, such as the rise of social complexity, urban settlement histories, and changes in culture and identity. These enduring topics provide the foundation for investigating the benefits and challenges of twenty-first-century methods and conceptual frameworks. Divided into three main sections related to critical chronological transitions, from earliest prehistory to the development of autonomous kingdoms during the Iron Age, each contribution exposes and engages with a different advance in studies of material culture, absolute dating, paleoenvironmental analysis, and spatial studies using geographic information systems.
From rethinking the chronological transitions of the Early Bronze Age, to exploring regional craft production regimes of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, to locating Iron Age cemeteries through archival topographic maps, these exciting and pioneering authors provide innovative ways of thinking about Cypriot archaeology and its relationship to the wider discipline.
Contributors: Georgia Marina Andreou, Brown University; Stella Diakou, Trinity College and University of Cyprus; Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou, University of Cyprus; David Frankel, La Trobe University; Catherine Kearns, University of Chicago; Sturt W. Manning, Cornell University; Eilís Monahan, Cornell University; Charalambos Paraskeva, University of Cyprus; Anna Satraki, Department of Antiquities of Cyprus; Matthew Spigelman, Acme Heritage Consultants