Pattern and Process in the Earliest Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands
Pattern and Process in the Earliest Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands
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地中海岛屿最早殖民化的模式和过程
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1981
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J. Cherry
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J. Cherry
地中海岛屿最早是在什么时候、怎样定居下来的？孤立性本身——所有岛屿的特点——是否限制了人类殖民的方式和速度？如果是这样，考古学家是否有可能利用已经开发出来的生态和生物地理模型来解释大小和偏远岛屿上动植物的丰富和多样性？本文从第二个和第三个重要问题的角度，对第一个重要问题的现有数据进行了简要回顾，并对目前大多数关于地中海早期岛屿史前史的记述中发现的殖民情景提出了一些修改。作为个人研究兴趣的反映，我强调东地中海的证据，但我相信，通过将我们在那里发现的与西部岛屿的模式进行比较，可以收集到有用的见解。
When and how were the Mediterranean islands first settled? Has insularity itself—the special characteristics of islands everywhere—acted as a constraint on the manner and rate of their colonization by man? If so, is it possible for archaeologists to make use of ecological and biogeographical models which have been developed to account for the abundance and diversity of animals and plants on islands of varying size and remoteness? This paper offers a brief review of the available data on the first of these important questions, seen in the light of the second and third, and it proposes some modifications to the scenarios of colonization to be found in most current accounts of early island prehistory in the Mediterranean. As a reflection of personal research interests, I emphasize the east Mediterranean evidence, but there are useful insights to be gleaned, I believe, by comparing what we find there with the pattern for the islands of the west.