event · evt_maa_foundation
Foundation of Maa-Palaeokastro
A defensible coastal settlement with substantial enclosure works and mixed Cypriot and Aegean-associated material was founded in western Cyprus.
What is the evidence?
observation
A defensible coastal settlement with substantial enclosure works and mixed Cypriot and Aegean-associated material was founded in western Cyprus.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.
1220 BCE–1190 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 primary excavation evidence
Excavations at Maa-Palaeokastro 1979–1986 — Vassos Karageorghis, Martha Demas (1988)Documents foundation and fortification.
Locator: Architecture and Phase I - informs · provides source criticism
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)Separates mixed material from ethnic attribution.
Locator: Maa and colonization narratives
Interpretation and caveats
The construction indicates organized movement and local investment, but material style does not identify a homogeneous immigrant colony.
Event context
Classification
Event type: fortified settlement foundation
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Maa-Palaeokastro, Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron 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 foundation and fortification. Role: provides primary excavation evidence. Locator: Architecture and Phase I.
- Separates mixed material from ethnic attribution. Role: provides source criticism. Locator: Maa and colonization narratives.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary excavation evidence
Excavations at Maa-Palaeokastro 1979–1986 — Vassos Karageorghis, Martha Demas (1988)Documents foundation and fortification.
Locator: Architecture and Phase I - informs · provides source criticism
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)Separates mixed material from ethnic attribution.
Locator: Maa and colonization narratives