entity · place_cyprus_maritime_interaction_zone
Cyprus eastern Mediterranean maritime interaction zone
Also known as: Cyprus maritime networks
Analytical zone linking Cypriot ports and anchorages with the Aegean, Crete, Rhodes, Cilicia, the Levant, Egypt, and the central Mediterranean.
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 cargo evidence
The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade — Cemal Pulak (2008)Documents one major late fourteenth-century maritime assemblage.
Locator: Uluburun cargo synthesis - informs · provides cargo evidence
Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck — George F. Bass, Peter Throckmorton, Joan du Plat Taylor, J. B. Hennessy, Alan R. Shulman, Hans-Günter Buchholz (1967)Documents a separate c. 1200 BCE metalworking cargo.
Locator: Cape Gelidonya wreck - informs · contextualizes
Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean: ‘Exotic Currency’ and Objects of Connectivity — A. Bernard Knapp (2022)Supports a network reading without automatic migration or political control.
Locator: Objects of connectivity
Research description
This is a research reconstruction of repeated interaction, not sovereignty, an exclusive trading sphere, or a set of precise ship routes. Individual cargoes and objects must be traced separately.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides cargo evidence
The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade — Cemal Pulak (2008)Documents one major late fourteenth-century maritime assemblage.
Locator: Uluburun cargo synthesis - informs · provides cargo evidence
Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck — George F. Bass, Peter Throckmorton, Joan du Plat Taylor, J. B. Hennessy, Alan R. Shulman, Hans-Günter Buchholz (1967)Documents a separate c. 1200 BCE metalworking cargo.
Locator: Cape Gelidonya wreck - informs · contextualizes
Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean: ‘Exotic Currency’ and Objects of Connectivity — A. Bernard Knapp (2022)Supports a network reading without automatic migration or political control.
Locator: Objects of connectivity