entity · people_mixed_households_lc_iiia
Mixed and locally reconfigured households of LC IIIA–IIIB Cyprus
Also known as: hybridized households
Households whose architecture, foodways, burial practices, and objects combined local Cypriot, Aegean-associated, Levantine, and other practices.
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.
1200 BCE–1050 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · proposes interpretation
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)Provides the principal mixed-identity interpretation.
Locator: Hybridization model - 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)Refines regional and social variation.
Locator: Resilience and household-scale change - informs · provides source criticism
Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean: ‘Exotic Currency’ and Objects of Connectivity — A. Bernard Knapp (2022)Prevents ceramic-style ethnic equivalence.
Locator: Aegean objects and connectivity
Research description
The category represents social mixing and selective adoption without assuming that every mixed assemblage reflects recent migration. Some newcomers are plausible, but their number, origin, status, and distribution remain uncertain.
Evidence and sources
- informs · proposes interpretation
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)Provides the principal mixed-identity interpretation.
Locator: Hybridization model - 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)Refines regional and social variation.
Locator: Resilience and household-scale change - informs · provides source criticism
Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean: ‘Exotic Currency’ and Objects of Connectivity — A. Bernard Knapp (2022)Prevents ceramic-style ethnic equivalence.
Locator: Aegean objects and connectivity