Living on Small Islands: Archaeological Perspectives on Vulnerability and Resilience

Contents

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, 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 research fellow at the University of São Paulo and at Unicamp, collaborates on the Despotiko excavations, is a director of ArcheoPaideia, and organises a summer school in Greece.

Lilian de Angelo Laky is a research fellow at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of São Paulo and at the German Archaeological Institute 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.