This collection of papers presents the results of a symposium held at the Getty Museum in February 1990. Recent archaeological excavations provide evidence that Cyprus had a great cultural and economic importance during the Bronze Age. The contributors discuss aspects of the Bronze Age as they relate to Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean. Topics include the economy of the period, its basis in the exploitation of metals and stone, Cyprus’s international influence on trade and religion, and evidence of that influence though interpretation of archaeological sites and artifacts.

• The Vasilikos Valley and the Chalcolithic Period in Cyprus
  Ian A. Todd
• Kissonerga-Mosphilia: A Major Chalcolithic Site in Cyprus
  Edgar Peltenburg
• Metals and Metallurgy in the Chalcolithic Period
  Noll H. Gale
• Man and Beast in Chalcolithic Cyprus
  Paul Croft
• The Evolution of the Chalcolithic Painted Style
  Diane L. Bolger
• Rock Sources of Ground Stone Tools of the Chalcolithic Period in Cyprus
  Carolyn Elliott
• Local Exchange in Prehistoric Cyprus: An Initial Assessment of Picrolite
  Edgar Peltenburg
• Picrolite, Its Nature, Provenance, and Possible Distribution Patterns in the Chalcolithic Period of Cyprus
  C. Xenophontos
• Stone Sculpture in Chalcolithic Cyprus
  Lucia V. Agnetti
• Pottery Figurines: The Development of a Coroplastic Art in Chalcolithic Cyprus
  Elizabeth Goring
• A Terracotta Pendant from Kalavassos-Ayious
  V. Karageorghis
• Anatolian Contacts with Chalcolithic Cyprus
  Machteld J. Mellink