event · evt_mc_iii_lc_i_reorganization
Middle Cypriot III to Late Cypriot I settlement and exchange reorganization
Settlement, mortuary, ceramic, and exchange changes conventionally assigned to Middle Cypriot III and Late Cypriot I precede the later urban and copper-export systems.
What is the evidence?
observation
Settlement, mortuary, ceramic, and exchange changes conventionally assigned to Middle Cypriot III and Late Cypriot I precede the later urban and copper-export systems.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.
1750 BCE–1500 BCE
Precision: broad range
moderatePreferred display range for this event. It preserves positive BCE ordering and does not suppress narrower contexts or alternative chronology models.
- informs · provides synthesis
The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age — A. Bernard Knapp (2013)Provides the island-wide chronological and archaeological synthesis.
Locator: Middle–Late Cypriot transition chapters - informs · contextualizes
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Places later resilience in a longer regional sequence.
Locator: Long-term transition framework
Interpretation and caveats
The Late Bronze Age system emerged through uneven regional reorganization rather than a single island-wide foundation event.
Event context
Classification
Event type: regional settlement and exchange transition
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Middle Cypriot III to Late Cypriot I antecedents, Cyprus eastern Mediterranean maritime interaction zone
Why it matters to the timeline
Directly reconstructs a Cypriot site, landscape, institution, community, or chronological transition within the primary interval.
Research notes
- Provides the island-wide chronological and archaeological synthesis. Role: provides synthesis. Locator: Middle–Late Cypriot transition chapters.
- Places later resilience in a longer regional sequence. Role: contextualizes. Locator: Long-term transition framework.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides synthesis
The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age — A. Bernard Knapp (2013)Provides the island-wide chronological and archaeological synthesis.
Locator: Middle–Late Cypriot transition chapters - informs · contextualizes
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Places later resilience in a longer regional sequence.
Locator: Long-term transition framework