entity · people_coastal_merchant_households
Coastal merchant and exchange households
Also known as: merchant communities
Unnamed households, brokers, sailors, administrators, and craft producers participating in coastal exchange at Hala Sultan Tekke, Enkomi, Kition, Maroni, Palaepaphos, and smaller anchorages.
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.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: A Late Bronze Age Trade Metropolis — Peter M. Fischer (2019)Supports coastal exchange households.
Locator: Urban trade, storage, and industries - informs · contextualizes
Becoming Urban: Investigating the Anatomy of the Maroni Late Bronze Age Complex, Cyprus — Sturt W. Manning, Georgia Marina Andreou, Kevin D. Fisher, Peregrine Gerard-Little, Catherine Kearns, Jeffrey F. Leon, David A. Sewell, Thomas M. Urban (2014)Supports dispersed household participation.
Locator: Urban complex and coastal access - informs · provides cargo context
The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade — Cemal Pulak (2008)Demonstrates wider networks without assigning all cargo to one group.
Locator: Shipborne trade assemblage
Research description
Imported goods, storage, weights, writing, production debris, and maritime settings reveal participation in exchange, but do not identify a single merchant ethnicity or centralized island trading corporation.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: A Late Bronze Age Trade Metropolis — Peter M. Fischer (2019)Supports coastal exchange households.
Locator: Urban trade, storage, and industries - informs · contextualizes
Becoming Urban: Investigating the Anatomy of the Maroni Late Bronze Age Complex, Cyprus — Sturt W. Manning, Georgia Marina Andreou, Kevin D. Fisher, Peregrine Gerard-Little, Catherine Kearns, Jeffrey F. Leon, David A. Sewell, Thomas M. Urban (2014)Supports dispersed household participation.
Locator: Urban complex and coastal access - informs · provides cargo context
The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade — Cemal Pulak (2008)Demonstrates wider networks without assigning all cargo to one group.
Locator: Shipborne trade assemblage