Living on Small Islands: Archaeological Perspectives on Vulnerability and Resilience

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction – Erica Angliker and Lilian de Angelo Laky

An Island through Time: Surface Survey and Selective Occupation on Strongylo (Antiparos) – Evan I. Levine, Hüseyin Ç. Öztürk, Alex R. Knodell, Denitsa Nenova, John F. Cherry, Demetrios Athanasoulis, Zozi Papadopoulou and Žarko Tankosić

Social Strategies for Dealing with Scarce Precipitation: Examples from the Iron Age Cyclades – Doug Forsyth

Resilience and Vulnerability of a Greek Colony on a Small Adriatic Island: The Case Study of Issa on Vis on the Croatian Coast of Dalmatia (4th – 1st Centuries BCE) – Lilian de Angelo Laky

Nearshore Islands as Resilient Cultural Landscape Among Shellmound Building Societies on the Southern Shores of Brazil – Henrique Kozlowski and Paulo DeBlasis

Community Participation in Response to Environmental Challenges in the Caribbean: A Dialogue Between Archaeology and Local Knowledge – Andrea Richards and Harold Kelly

About the Author

Erica Angliker is a specialist in island studies and Ancient Greek religion. She holds a PhD from the University of Zurich and MAs from Columbia University and Unicamp. Her research examines the cultural, spatial, and ritual dimensions of Aegean sanctuaries, with a focus on the Cycladic islands. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Palermo (VOICING Project) and a fellow at the University of São Paulo and at Unicamp. Erica has been a scientific collaborator on the excavations at the Sanctuary of Apollo on Despotiko (Cyclades) since 2014.

Lilian de Angelo Laky is a Research Fellow at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo and has been collaborating with the German Archaeological Institute’s excavations at Olympia (DAI Athens). She has a PhD in Mediterranean Archaeology from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (2016) and Post-doctorate in Ancient History (2023) from the same university. Her research focuses on insularity, cities, and territories of the polis, cult and sanctuaries, and ancient Greek numismatics.