event · evt_cg_iii_rural_sanctuary_growth
Renewed rural and sanctuary visibility in Cypro-Geometric III
By Cypro-Geometric III, surveys and excavations document renewed rural occupation and sanctuary activity in several regions.
What is the evidence?
observation
By Cypro-Geometric III, surveys and excavations document renewed rural occupation and sanctuary activity in several regions.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.
900 BCE–800 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 synthesis
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Documents the renewed visibility.
Locator: CG III settlement and sanctuary trends - informs · proposes political model
Cultural and Political Configurations in Iron Age Cyprus: The Sequel to a Protohistoric Episode — Maria Iacovou (2008)Provides one model without precise Bronze Age retrojection.
Locator: Iron Age political configuration
Interpretation and caveats
The pattern is compatible with expanding local institutions and regional polities, but later city-kingdom borders cannot be inferred directly from sanctuary distributions.
Event context
Classification
Event type: rural reoccupation and sanctuary growth
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Inland rural and agropastoral settlement of Cyprus, Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape, Larnaca Bay Late Bronze Age landscape
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 renewed visibility. Role: provides synthesis. Locator: CG III settlement and sanctuary trends.
- Provides one model without precise Bronze Age retrojection. Role: proposes political model. Locator: Iron Age political configuration.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides synthesis
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Documents the renewed visibility.
Locator: CG III settlement and sanctuary trends - informs · proposes political model
Cultural and Political Configurations in Iron Age Cyprus: The Sequel to a Protohistoric Episode — Maria Iacovou (2008)Provides one model without precise Bronze Age retrojection.
Locator: Iron Age political configuration