entity · site_kition
Kition
At Kition on Cyprus’s southern coast, sacred and public buildings sit within a history of urban investment, workshops and maritime connections. Its evidence invites us to look for changes in organization as well as destruction.
Kition: a place in a connected world
At Kition on Cyprus’s southern coast, sacred and public buildings sit within a history of urban investment, workshops and maritime connections. Its evidence invites us to look for changes in organization as well as destruction.
Workshop assemblages connect metalworking with repair and recycling. The city participated in a distributed economy whose connections and institutions could change while work continued.
What changed?
Rebuilding with continuing production
What continued?
Metalworking, exchange and rebuilt sacred/public architecture continued. Later records follow the town into Cypro-Geometric phases and Phoenician connections.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Evidence and sources
- supports · supports entity record
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Kition.
- supports · supports entity record
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Kition.
Referenced records
- Cyprus · entity