claim · claim_enkomi_centrality_not_hegemony
Enkomi's scale and metallurgical intensity support exceptional centrality but do not alone prove hegemony over all Cypriot mines, ports, workshops, or settlements.
Enkomi's scale and metallurgical intensity support exceptional centrality but do not alone prove hegemony over all Cypriot mines, ports, workshops, or settlements.
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · supports and qualifies
One City to Rule Them All? The Production of Copper in Enkomi, Cyprus: The Evidence from the Metallurgical Ceramic Assemblage — Demetrios Ioannides, Vasiliki Kassianidou, George Papasavvas (2024)Documents exceptional production while exposing inferential limits.
Locator: Results, sampling limits and centralization discussion - supports · supports distributed model
Copper Smelting in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Excavations at Politiko Phorades — A. Bernard Knapp, Vasiliki Kassianidou, Michael Donnelly (2001)Shows inland production outside Enkomi.
Locator: Politiko-Phorades primary smelting - supports · supports distributed model
Metalworking and Recycling in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Evidence from Kition — Vassos Karageorghis, Vasiliki Kassianidou (1999)Shows another urban node.
Locator: Kition metalworking
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Referenced records
- Kition-Kathari · entity
- Politiko-Phorades · entity
- Enkomi · entity
- Troodos copper ore and slag landscapes · entity