entity · site_kaleburnu_kraltepe
Kaleburnu-Kraltepe / Galinoporni-Vasili
Also known as: Kraltepe, Galinoporni-Vasili, Kaleburnu
Karpas settlement with a rich bronze-object hoard and evidence for regional exchange and status.
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.
1400 BCE–1150 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides project evidence
Kaleburnu-Kraltepe Archaeological Project — University of Tübingen Archaeological ProjectDirect project source.
Locator: Project overview and hoard - informs · locates
Cyprus Settlements Dataset, Version 1.0.0 — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2022)Provides approximate locator with northern precision caveat.
Locator: Karpas settlement entry - 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 cautious integration.
Locator: Regional variability and publication imbalance
Research description
Kaleburnu-Kraltepe materially changes the reconstruction of the Karpas Peninsula, but its full chronology, settlement hierarchy, and hoard interpretation remain incompletely published. It should not be designated a regional capital without stronger evidence.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Mixed material repertoire
Assemblage combining local Cypriot and multiple external or external-style traditions.
Why does this record have this property?
The settlement and hoard indicate wide connections and high-value metal circulation.
- Kaleburnu-Kraltepe Archaeological Project
supports assignment · Project summary
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides project evidence
Kaleburnu-Kraltepe Archaeological Project — University of Tübingen Archaeological ProjectDirect project source.
Locator: Project overview and hoard - informs · locates
Cyprus Settlements Dataset, Version 1.0.0 — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2022)Provides approximate locator with northern precision caveat.
Locator: Karpas settlement entry - 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 cautious integration.
Locator: Regional variability and publication imbalance
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_kaleburnu_kraltepe · geography assertion
- Karpas Peninsula Late Bronze Age landscape · entity