Recent research reveals what we term a ‘discourse of certainty’ regarding an assumed predominant socio-economic and cultural impact of Late Bronze Age Cypriotes or Mycenaeans on the local peoples of Sardinia and/or Sicily and Italy, not least in terms of a systematic, seaborne trading network extending from the Cyprus to the Tyrrhenian Sea. ‘Minimalist’ approaches to such a phenomenon have a long and venerable but more limited pedigree. In this study, we question why minimalist views have been so summarily dismissed in much current literature that seeks to evaluate an eastern Mediterranean presence or influence in the central Mediterranean. We focus on Sardinia, and on the range of Cypriot or ‘Cypriot-type’ materials found there. We consider the nature of the Cypriot–Sardinian relationship, and suggest that we should decouple foreign objects from foreign agents. We question several of the perceived Cypriot influences on Sardinian artefacts, and consider possible alternative mechanisms and routes of exchange between the east and central Mediterranean. We outline and discuss the array of presumed or actual Cypriot artefacts found on Sardinia, and argue that these do not add up to a ‘significant’ corpus of Late Cypriot materials and connections.

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撒丁岛和塞浦路斯：对地中海中部塞浦路斯人的另一种看法

最近的研究揭示了我们所谓的“确定性话语”，即青铜时代晚期塞浦路斯人或迈锡尼人对撒丁岛和/或西西里岛和意大利当地人民的假定主要社会经济和文化影响，尤其是在系统方面，海运贸易网络从塞浦路斯延伸到第勒尼安海。对这种现象的“极简主义”方法有着悠久而古老但更为有限的谱系。在这项研究中，我们质疑为什么极简主义观点在当前许多试图评估地中海东部存在或影响地中海中部的文献中被如此草率地驳回。我们专注于撒丁岛，以及在那里发现的塞浦路斯或“塞浦路斯类型”材料的范围。我们考虑塞浦路斯-撒丁岛关系的性质，并建议我们应该将外来对象与外来代理解耦。我们质疑塞浦路斯对撒丁岛手工艺品的影响，并考虑东地中海和中地中海之间可能的替代机制和交流途径。我们概述并讨论了在撒丁岛发现的一系列推测或实际的塞浦路斯人工制品，并认为这些并不能构成塞浦路斯晚期材料和联系的“重要”语料库。