BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENTS

Settlements

Sotira-Kaminoudhia

Sotira-Kaminoudhia is an Early Bronze Age settlement. At Sotira-Kaminoudhia the entirely stone-built house walls, which house is rectangle separated into rooms which include built beds attached to the walls. The walls width is thick, up to two meters and there’s only one entrance. The houses are larger and more comfortable. The floor is made of mud and it is thick and there is a fireplace in each house. The cemetery is close to the settlement, each grave cut into the rock and the dead are placed horizontally alongside relics. One golden ring was found among the relics, besides ceramics and stone relics. The pottery is red-polished [Andros Pavlides, 2013].

Maroni-Vournes

This Late Bronze Age settlement included impressive buildings such as residents, workshops, storages spaces, olive mills and others. Olive oil was an exportation product [Andros Pavlides, 2013].

Kalavasos-Agios Demetrios

This Late Bronze Age settlement is from the period of 1325-1225 BC, and the ruins witness great economical and cultural development. The offerings found in the graves include much golden and silver jewellery, objects of faience, alabaster and glass, excellent Mycenaean ceramics and others. Graves were found that date also to the Early Bronze Age, which means that the settlement grew and evolved in time [Andros Pavlides, 2013].

Maa-Paleokastro

It was a short-lived site that emerged during the transition from the 13th to the 12th century in the Late Bronze Age and was abandoned before the middle of the 12the century. It was a defensive or military outpost [Maria Iacovou, 2008]. The walls surrounding this settlement remind us of the Cyclopean Mycenaean architecture and of other Peloponnese cities. The lower part of the wall was built with huge rocks, the middle level with average rocks, and the higher level with mud bricks. The wall was 3,50 metres thick. This innovative architecture of fortresses was introduced in Cyprus by the Achaean migrants [Andros Pavlides, 2013].

Aglantzia-Liontarovounos

Late Bronze Age objects have been discovered on a hill named Leontari or Liontarovounos in the Aglantzia area some 6½ kilometres southeast of the historical centre of modern Nicosia. Leontari is a platform of about 200 x 300 meters, with a small cemetery. At the end of the nineteenth century, ruins from an unspecified period were still visible [Livius].

Pyla-Kokkinokremmos

It was a short-lived site that emerged during the transition from the 13th to the 12th century in the Late Bronze Age and was abandoned before the middle of the 12the century. It was a defensive or military outpost [Maria Iacovou, 2008].

Vasilia-Kilistra

Vasilia-Kafkallia

Alambra-Mouttes

Politiko-Troullia

Politiko-Phorades

Episkopi-Phaneromeni

Marki-Alonia

Sotira-Troulli tou Nikola

Karmi-Palealona

Lapithos-Vrysi tou Barba

Ambelikou-Aletri

Pyrgos-Mavrorachi

Athienou-Bamboulari tis Koukounninas

Maroni-Tsaroukkas

Alassa-Ano Mandilares

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