entity · place_inland_rural_cyprus
Inland rural and agropastoral settlement of Cyprus
Also known as: rural Cyprus, agricultural hinterlands
Distributed villages, farmsteads, seasonal sites, cemeteries, field systems, storage, and agropastoral communities that supported larger settlements and persisted unevenly through the transition.
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 · contextualizes
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Provides island-wide synthesis of sparse Early Iron evidence.
Locator: Rural settlement and survey-bias discussion - informs · documents dataset limitations
A Gazetteer of Archaeological Settlements on Cyprus — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2023)Supports explicit visibility and survey caveats.
Locator: Gazetteer scope and gaps - 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)Shows how regional work integrates urban and rural components.
Locator: Maroni survey and settlement complex
Research description
This analytical entity makes rural communities visible without implying cultural uniformity. Survey intensity, erosion, alluviation, modern land use, and ceramic visibility strongly affect the record.
Evidence and sources
- 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)Provides island-wide synthesis of sparse Early Iron evidence.
Locator: Rural settlement and survey-bias discussion - informs · documents dataset limitations
A Gazetteer of Archaeological Settlements on Cyprus — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2023)Supports explicit visibility and survey caveats.
Locator: Gazetteer scope and gaps - 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)Shows how regional work integrates urban and rural components.
Locator: Maroni survey and settlement complex