534 pp, hb, color figures, in English.
For almost five decades research into, and preservation of, the historic sites and monuments of northern and southern Cyprus have developed on different eangents. The post-1974 division of the island has created an imbalance in cultural heritage management which has been widely acknowledged, discussed, and in some notable cases, lamented. This is especially true of the northern part of the island where a political solution to the Cyprus Problem' remains a precondition for international engagement and recognition, regardless of the lack of progress made on this complex issue since 1974 and despite historic opportunities being missed in the recent past. Even as this is being written the quest for a political resolution remains characterised by a debilitating stasis which in turn has led to on-going vulnerability and loss of the island's shared heritage.
The conference New Approaches in Recording, Preserving and Studying of Cultural Heritage in Divided Cyprus: Problems & Opportunities was held in Kyrenia/ Girne in September 2019 and was conceived as an advanced academic discussion into the challenges created by this existing political and academic status quo; curated as an opportunity to reconceptualise a realignment leading to new pathways and opportunities; and envisaged as a forum to nvestigate how a return of sophisticated investigation, careful conservation, and international publication of heritage sites might yet be possible - even in the absence of a comprehensive island-wide political solution.
This volume includes the proceedings of that conference in the form of nineteen articles that each engage with diverse and complex themes associated the past, present and future of Cyprus cultural heritage
