event · evt_kition_metalworking_recycling
Metalworking and recycling at Kition
Workshop assemblages document melting, casting, repair, recycling, and continued metalworking across the transition.
What is the evidence?
observation
Workshop assemblages document melting, casting, repair, recycling, and continued metalworking across the transition.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.
1300 BCE–1050 BCE
Precision: approximate
very highPreferred display range for this event. It preserves positive BCE ordering and does not suppress narrower contexts or alternative chronology models.
- informs · provides archaeometallurgical evidence
Metalworking and Recycling in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Evidence from Kition — Vassos Karageorghis, Vasiliki Kassianidou (1999)Documents recycling and metalworking.
Locator: Workshop assemblages - informs · contextualizes
Cyprus During the Iron Age I Period (Late Cypriot IIC–IIIA): Settlement Pattern Crisis (LC IIC–IIIA) to the Restructuring (LC IIIB) of Its Settlement Pattern — Maria Iacovou (2014)Places industry within urban rebuilding.
Locator: Kition continuity
Interpretation and caveats
Kition participated in a distributed copper and bronze economy rather than merely receiving finished metal from one central authority.
Event context
Classification
Event type: metalworking and recycling
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Kition-Kathari
Why it matters to the timeline
Directly reconstructs a Cypriot site, landscape, institution, community, or chronological transition within the primary interval.
Research notes
- Documents recycling and metalworking. Role: provides archaeometallurgical evidence. Locator: Workshop assemblages.
- Places industry within urban rebuilding. Role: contextualizes. Locator: Kition continuity.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeometallurgical evidence
Metalworking and Recycling in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Evidence from Kition — Vassos Karageorghis, Vasiliki Kassianidou (1999)Documents recycling and metalworking.
Locator: Workshop assemblages - informs · contextualizes
Cyprus During the Iron Age I Period (Late Cypriot IIC–IIIA): Settlement Pattern Crisis (LC IIC–IIIA) to the Restructuring (LC IIIB) of Its Settlement Pattern — Maria Iacovou (2014)Places industry within urban rebuilding.
Locator: Kition continuity
Referenced records
- Kition-Kathari · entity