event · evt_kition_early_iron_continuity
Kition continuity through Cypro-Geometric I–II
Occupation, cult, exchange, and urban institutions continued through early Cypro-Geometric phases.
What is the evidence?
observation
Occupation, cult, exchange, and urban institutions continued through early Cypro-Geometric phases.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.
1050 BCE–900 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 archaeological and epigraphic synthesis
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Documents the early first-millennium sequence.
Locator: Tenth–ninth-century Kition - informs · contextualizes
Cultural and Political Configurations in Iron Age Cyprus: The Sequel to a Protohistoric Episode — Maria Iacovou (2008)Places continuity within political transformation.
Locator: Formation of Iron Age polities
Interpretation and caveats
Kition became one of the clearest cases of long-lived coastal urban continuity, although its political form changed through time.
Event context
Classification
Event type: urban continuity and political transformation
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Kition-Kathari, Kition-Bamboula
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 early first-millennium sequence. Role: provides archaeological and epigraphic synthesis. Locator: Tenth–ninth-century Kition.
- Places continuity within political transformation. Role: contextualizes. Locator: Formation of Iron Age polities.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological and epigraphic synthesis
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Documents the early first-millennium sequence.
Locator: Tenth–ninth-century Kition - informs · contextualizes
Cultural and Political Configurations in Iron Age Cyprus: The Sequel to a Protohistoric Episode — Maria Iacovou (2008)Places continuity within political transformation.
Locator: Formation of Iron Age polities
Referenced records
- Kition-Kathari · entity
- Kition-Bamboula · entity