entity · place_karpas_peninsula
Karpas Peninsula Late Bronze Age landscape
Also known as: Karpasia, Karpas
Long northeastern peninsula with coastal approaches, small settlements, fortified or defensible sites, metal hoards, and links toward Cilicia and the Levant.
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 project evidence
Kaleburnu-Kraltepe Archaeological Project — University of Tübingen Archaeological ProjectSupports a major Karpas centre and hoard.
Locator: Kaleburnu-Kraltepe project summary - informs · locates
Cyprus Settlements Dataset, Version 1.0.0 — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2022)Provides approximate site locators with documented caveats.
Locator: Karpas settlement records - 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 non-uniform island interpretation.
Locator: Regional coverage and settlement cautions
Research description
Karpas evidence is materially important but unevenly published. The peninsula is treated as an interaction landscape rather than a homogeneous polity.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides project evidence
Kaleburnu-Kraltepe Archaeological Project — University of Tübingen Archaeological ProjectSupports a major Karpas centre and hoard.
Locator: Kaleburnu-Kraltepe project summary - informs · locates
Cyprus Settlements Dataset, Version 1.0.0 — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2022)Provides approximate site locators with documented caveats.
Locator: Karpas settlement records - 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 non-uniform island interpretation.
Locator: Regional coverage and settlement cautions
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for place_karpas_peninsula · geography assertion