event · evt_kouris_valley_small_site_continuity
Small-site persistence in the Kouris Valley
Survey and excavation evidence suggests that some smaller inland communities and activity areas persisted or shifted while major centres changed.
What is the evidence?
observation
Survey and excavation evidence suggests that some smaller inland communities and activity areas persisted or shifted while major centres changed.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–900 BCE
Precision: approximate
lowPreferred display range for this event. It preserves positive BCE ordering and does not suppress narrower contexts or alternative chronology models.
- informs · contextualizes
Alassa: Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000 — Sophocles Hadjisavvas (2017)Provides an inland-centre framework.
Locator: Alassa hinterland and nearby localities - informs · provides source criticism
A Gazetteer of Archaeological Settlements on Cyprus — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2023)Supports cautious small-site reconstruction.
Locator: Settlement gazetteer and survey biases
Interpretation and caveats
Regional resilience may have depended on small settlements and mobile land use that are underrepresented in monumental excavation records.
Event context
Classification
Event type: rural and small settlement continuity
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Kouris Valley and Alassa–Kourion corridor, Inland rural and agropastoral settlement of Cyprus
Why it matters to the timeline
Directly reconstructs a Cypriot site, landscape, institution, community, or chronological transition within the primary interval.
Research notes
- Provides an inland-centre framework. Role: contextualizes. Locator: Alassa hinterland and nearby localities.
- Supports cautious small-site reconstruction. Role: provides source criticism. Locator: Settlement gazetteer and survey biases.
- Frames small actors as part of transition. Role: proposes interpretation. Locator: Rural resilience.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Alassa: Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000 — Sophocles Hadjisavvas (2017)Provides an inland-centre framework.
Locator: Alassa hinterland and nearby localities - informs · provides source criticism
A Gazetteer of Archaeological Settlements on Cyprus — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2023)Supports cautious small-site reconstruction.
Locator: Settlement gazetteer and survey biases - informs · proposes interpretation
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Frames small actors as part of transition.
Locator: Rural resilience