entity · site_kalavasos_ayios_dhimitrios
Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios
Also known as: Kalavasos-Ayios Demetrios, Ayios Dhimitrios
Planned inland-coastal settlement with monumental Building X, bulk storage, olive-oil production, administration, literacy, and small-scale metallurgy.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Chronology
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1500 BCE–1200 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides project evidence
Late Bronze Age Society in Cyprus: Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios Publication Project — Alison South, Vasilikos Valley ProjectDocuments scale, functions, and abandonment.
Locator: Site overview and Building X - informs · provides archaeological observation
Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios II: Ceramics, Objects, Tombs, Specialist Studies — Alison South, Pamela Russell, Priscilla Keswani, and contributors (1989)Primary material publication.
Locator: Ceramics, objects, and tombs - informs · contextualizes
The Location of Alashiya: New Evidence from Petrographic Investigation of Alashiyan Tablets from El-Amarna and Ugarit — Yuval Goren, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Na’aman (2003)Connects site to Alashiya debate without capital proof.
Locator: Tablet-provenance candidate area
Research description
Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios reached a thirteenth-century zenith and was evacuated around 1200 BCE. Only Building X shows major burning, so the settlement should not be represented as wholly destroyed in one attack.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Agricultural storage and redistribution
Large-scale storage or processing evidence indicating coordinated collection, consumption, or redistribution.
Why does this record have this property?
Building X stored very large quantities of olive oil and coordinated processing and consumption.
- Late Bronze Age Society in Cyprus: Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios Publication Project
supports assignment · Building X storage
Administrative or institutional writing context
Writing associated with storage, production, sealing, accounting, or coordinated institutional activity.
Why does this record have this property?
Seals, Cypro-Minoan inscriptions, and bronze styli occur with storage and monumental architecture.
- Late Bronze Age Society in Cyprus: Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios Publication Project
supports assignment · Administration and literacy
Inland production node
Inland site participating in extraction, smelting, agriculture, storage, craft production, or route support.
Why does this record have this property?
Agriculture, storage, and small-scale metallurgy connect the settlement to the Vasilikos valley and copper routes.
- Late Bronze Age Society in Cyprus: Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios Publication Project
supports assignment · Economic activities
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides project evidence
Late Bronze Age Society in Cyprus: Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios Publication Project — Alison South, Vasilikos Valley ProjectDocuments scale, functions, and abandonment.
Locator: Site overview and Building X - informs · provides archaeological observation
Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios II: Ceramics, Objects, Tombs, Specialist Studies — Alison South, Pamela Russell, Priscilla Keswani, and contributors (1989)Primary material publication.
Locator: Ceramics, objects, and tombs - informs · contextualizes
The Location of Alashiya: New Evidence from Petrographic Investigation of Alashiyan Tablets from El-Amarna and Ugarit — Yuval Goren, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Na’aman (2003)Connects site to Alashiya debate without capital proof.
Locator: Tablet-provenance candidate area
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_kalavasos_ayios_dhimitrios · geography assertion
- Vasilikos–Maroni production and settlement corridor · entity