Living on Small Islands: Archaeological Perspectives on Vulnerability and Resilience
Edited by Erica Angliker Edited by Lilian de Angelo Laky
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(August 2026)
ISBN: 9781805832768
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This volume explores how small island communities adapted to environmental challenges across time and place. Through case studies from the Aegean, Adriatic, Brazil and the Caribbean, it examines resilience, resource management, cultural traditions and human–environment relationships, and the role of islands in wider social and economic networks.
This volume examines the archaeology of small islands and the ways in which island communities have responded to environmental challenges across different regions and periods. The contributors examine the resilience of islanders in addressing these challenges, the solutions that they have devised, and instances in which resource depletion necessitated the abandonment of inhabited islands.
The topics addressed include the demographic and social impacts of environmental changes on small islands and the influence of the unique environmental conditions on local cultures and range from the survey of small Aegean islands and strategies for managing water scarcity in the Iron Age Cyclades to Greek colonisation in the Adriatic, shell mound-building societies of southern Brazil, and community-based approaches to heritage and climate resilience in the Caribbean. The contributors consider religious practices, social organisation, economies, material culture and traditions. Together, the studies demonstrate the diverse roles played by small islands within wider cultural and economic networks and highlight their importance for understanding long-term human-environment relationships.
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
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.
- Edited by Erica Angliker
- Edited by Lilian de Angelo Laky
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