event · evt_apliki_mining_settlement
Late Bronze Age mining settlement at Apliki-Karamallos
A settlement associated with mining, ore access, households, and production operated in the Solea region.
What is the evidence?
observation
A settlement associated with mining, ore access, households, and production operated in the Solea region.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.
1400 BCE–1200 BCE
Precision: approximate
highPreferred display range for this event. It preserves positive BCE ordering and does not suppress narrower contexts or alternative chronology models.
- informs · provides primary excavation evidence
A Late Bronze Age Settlement at Apliki, Cyprus — Joan du Plat Taylor (1952)Documents the community.
Locator: Settlement and mining context - informs · proposes provenance model
The Role of the Apliki Mine Region in the Post-c. 1400 BC Copper Production and Trade Networks of Cyprus — Noel H. Gale, Zofia A. Stos-Gale (2012)Supports a major source-region hypothesis with acknowledged limits.
Locator: Lead-isotope discussion
Interpretation and caveats
Apliki provides evidence for a production community within a wider supply network, but provenance correlations do not make it the sole source of exported copper.
Event context
Classification
Event type: mining and production settlement
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Apliki-Karamallos, Solea copper axis
Why it matters to the timeline
Directly reconstructs a Cypriot site, landscape, institution, community, or chronological transition within the primary interval.
Research notes
- Documents the community. Role: provides primary excavation evidence. Locator: Settlement and mining context.
- Supports a major source-region hypothesis with acknowledged limits. Role: proposes provenance model. Locator: Lead-isotope discussion.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary excavation evidence
A Late Bronze Age Settlement at Apliki, Cyprus — Joan du Plat Taylor (1952)Documents the community.
Locator: Settlement and mining context - informs · proposes provenance model
The Role of the Apliki Mine Region in the Post-c. 1400 BC Copper Production and Trade Networks of Cyprus — Noel H. Gale, Zofia A. Stos-Gale (2012)Supports a major source-region hypothesis with acknowledged limits.
Locator: Lead-isotope discussion
Referenced records
- Apliki-Karamallos · entity
- Solea copper axis · entity