event · evt_enkomi_copper_production_continuity
Continued copper processing at Enkomi through Late Cypriot IIIA
Area III technical ceramics document diachronic matte treatment, refining, melting, casting, and recycling, including evidence from Late Cypriot IIIA and probable continued prominence until the end of the twelfth century BCE.
What is the evidence?
observation
Area III technical ceramics document diachronic matte treatment, refining, melting, casting, and recycling, including evidence from Late Cypriot IIIA and probable continued prominence until the end of the twelfth century BCE.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–1100 BCE
Precision: phase based range
Chronology model: Manning 2013 Late Cypriot phase divisions as used by the source
moderateLate Cypriot IIIA workshop evidence and the authors’ conclusion support continued prominence into the late twelfth century, but not continuous annual operation throughout every year in the range.
- informs · dates
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)Provides occupational-phase correlations and late workshop activity.
Locator: Table 1; Level IIIA samples; conclusions
Interpretation and caveats
Specialized copper processing at Enkomi continued through the wider regional transformation, showing economic and technological continuity rather than a uniform Cypriot shutdown around 1200 BCE.
Event context
Classification
Event type: metallurgical production continuity
Evidence layer: archaeological
People and places
Locations: Enkomi
Alternative interpretations
- Continued workshop activity at Enkomi does not by itself prove that one centralized authority controlled all Cypriot copper production or every mining and export stage. (high confidence)
Research notes
- Provides direct technical evidence and explicitly limits the analysed sample to less than five percent of the site corpus. Role: provides archaeological observation. Locator: Area III levels; results; conclusions.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
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)Provides direct technical evidence and explicitly limits the analysed sample to less than five percent of the site corpus.
Locator: Area III levels; results; conclusions
Referenced records
- Enkomi · entity