entity · people_troodos_mining_smelting_communities
Troodos mining and smelting communities
Also known as: copper-production communities
Unnamed workers, households, specialists, carriers, and managers visible through mines, smelting sites, settlements, tools, furnaces, slag, and supply networks.
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–1000 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Copper Smelting in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Excavations at Politiko Phorades — A. Bernard Knapp, Vasiliki Kassianidou, Michael Donnelly (2001)Documents specialist work and infrastructure.
Locator: Politiko-Phorades production context - informs · provides settlement evidence
A Late Bronze Age Settlement at Apliki, Cyprus — Joan du Plat Taylor (1952)Documents households near extraction.
Locator: Apliki mining settlement - informs · contextualizes
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Supports multiple labour stages and locations.
Locator: Production-chain synthesis
Research description
This community entity makes labour visible without assigning a single ethnicity, polity, or permanent residence pattern. Mining, charcoal production, smelting, transport, and food supply may have involved different groups and seasonal mobilities.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Copper Smelting in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Excavations at Politiko Phorades — A. Bernard Knapp, Vasiliki Kassianidou, Michael Donnelly (2001)Documents specialist work and infrastructure.
Locator: Politiko-Phorades production context - informs · provides settlement evidence
A Late Bronze Age Settlement at Apliki, Cyprus — Joan du Plat Taylor (1952)Documents households near extraction.
Locator: Apliki mining settlement - informs · contextualizes
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Supports multiple labour stages and locations.
Locator: Production-chain synthesis