property · prop_planned_or_fortified_settlement
Planned or defensible settlement
Settlement with evidence for coordinated layout, enclosure, topographic defensibility, or fortification.
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.
Research description
The property does not identify founders, attackers, ethnicity, or political status without additional evidence.
Evidence and sources
- informs · defines property
C-PEPL: Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus — C-PEPL Project, Honor Frost Foundation (2022)Provides a short-lived example.
Locator: Pyla layout and defensibility - informs · provides example
Excavations at Maa-Palaeokastro 1979–1986 — Vassos Karageorghis, Martha Demas (1988)Provides a western example.
Locator: Maa fortifications