event · evt_palaepaphos_skales_mortuary_transition
Mortuary transition at Palaepaphos-Skales
Late Cypriot IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs and pyres document changing burial forms, cremation practices, grave goods, and community organization.
What is the evidence?
observation
Late Cypriot IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs and pyres document changing burial forms, cremation practices, grave goods, and community organization.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.
1125 BCE–900 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 primary excavation evidence
Palaepaphos-Skales: Tombs of the Late Cypriote IIIB and Cypro-Geometric Periods (Excavations of 2008 and 2011) — Vassos Karageorghis, Efstathios Raptou (2016)Documents the mortuary sequence.
Locator: LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs - 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 local change within island-wide patterns.
Locator: Mortuary variability
Interpretation and caveats
The cemetery records locally negotiated social change; individual practices cannot be assigned automatically to a single migrant ethnicity.
Event context
Classification
Event type: mortuary practice transition
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Palaepaphos-Skales, 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 the mortuary sequence. Role: provides primary excavation evidence. Locator: LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs.
- Places local change within island-wide patterns. Role: contextualizes. Locator: Mortuary variability.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary excavation evidence
Palaepaphos-Skales: Tombs of the Late Cypriote IIIB and Cypro-Geometric Periods (Excavations of 2008 and 2011) — Vassos Karageorghis, Efstathios Raptou (2016)Documents the mortuary sequence.
Locator: LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs - 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 local change within island-wide patterns.
Locator: Mortuary variability