entity · people_inland_agropastoral_communities
Inland agropastoral communities
Also known as: rural households
Unnamed rural households producing grain, oil, wine, livestock, timber, charcoal, and transport services for local and regional 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.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides economic evidence
Late Bronze Age Society in Cyprus: Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios Publication Project — Alison South, Vasilikos Valley ProjectShows agrarian surplus within a regional system.
Locator: Oil storage and production - 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)Supports visibility caveats.
Locator: Rural settlement and resilience - informs · provides regional method
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)Integrates rural and urban components.
Locator: Maroni survey and hinterland
Research description
These communities are often less visible than excavated urban centres but were necessary to support storage, metallurgy, construction, and exchange. Their trajectories were regionally variable and cannot be reduced to urban decline.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides economic evidence
Late Bronze Age Society in Cyprus: Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios Publication Project — Alison South, Vasilikos Valley ProjectShows agrarian surplus within a regional system.
Locator: Oil storage and production - 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)Supports visibility caveats.
Locator: Rural settlement and resilience - informs · provides regional method
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)Integrates rural and urban components.
Locator: Maroni survey and hinterland