The “island laboratory” revisited: Integrating environmental and sociocultural approaches

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKeywords: Archaeological theoryisland biogeographymodel ecosystemdecolonizationnetworks AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to all the participants at our session on the “Island Laboratory revisited” at the European Association of Archaeologists in Barcelona for their stimulating contributions and in particular to all those who submitted papers for this Special Issue and to the Editors of The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology for their patience following the delay to this publication caused by the pandemic. We wish to dedicate this Special Issue to the memory of our dear friend and colleague Carole McCartney (1965–2021), whose significant contribution to the archaeology of Cyprus remains fundamental to our understanding of island archaeology in the Mediterranean and beyond.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.