event · evt_alassa_contraction_reorganization
Alassa contraction and reorganization
Monumental, storage, wine-production, and metallurgical activity at the Alassa complex changed across Late Cypriot III, with evidence for persistence but reduced or altered organization.
What is the evidence?
observation
Monumental, storage, wine-production, and metallurgical activity at the Alassa complex changed across Late Cypriot III, with evidence for persistence but reduced or altered organization.Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1200 BCE–1050 BCE
Precision: approximate
moderatePreferred display range for this event. It preserves positive BCE ordering and does not suppress narrower contexts or alternative chronology models.
- informs · provides excavation evidence
Alassa: Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000 — Sophocles Hadjisavvas (2017)Documents continuity and contraction.
Locator: Final phases at Paliotaverna and Pano Mantilaris - informs · contextualizes
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Places Alassa in island-wide restructuring.
Locator: Kouris valley transition
Interpretation and caveats
Alassa may have remained an important inland node after south-central coastal centres contracted, but its exact political rank and duration require phase-by-phase review.
Event context
Classification
Event type: inland centre contraction and reorganization
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Alassa-Paliotaverna, Alassa-Pano Mantilaris, Kouris Valley and Alassa–Kourion corridor
Why it matters to the timeline
Directly reconstructs a Cypriot site, landscape, institution, community, or chronological transition within the primary interval.
Research notes
- Documents continuity and contraction. Role: provides excavation evidence. Locator: Final phases at Paliotaverna and Pano Mantilaris.
- Places Alassa in island-wide restructuring. Role: contextualizes. Locator: Kouris valley transition.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides excavation evidence
Alassa: Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000 — Sophocles Hadjisavvas (2017)Documents continuity and contraction.
Locator: Final phases at Paliotaverna and Pano Mantilaris - informs · contextualizes
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Places Alassa in island-wide restructuring.
Locator: Kouris valley transition
Referenced records
- Kouris Valley and Alassa–Kourion corridor · entity
- Alassa-Paliotaverna · entity
- Alassa-Pano Mantilaris · entity