entity · site_kourion_bamboula
Episkopi-Bamboula / Kourion-Bamboula
Also known as: Kourion-Bamboula, Episkopi-Bamboula
Coastal settlement and cemetery complex in the Kourion region with disputed Bronze-to-Iron continuity.
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 chronological caution
Transition from Bronze to Iron at Kourion: A Review of the Tombs from Episkopi-Bamboula and Kaloriziki — Louise Steel (1996)Directly challenges older continuity claims.
Locator: Reassessment of tombs - informs · contextualizes
Alassa: Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000 — Sophocles Hadjisavvas (2017)Links coast and upper valley without imposing political unity.
Locator: Kouris inland context - informs · locates
Cyprus Settlements Dataset, Version 1.0.0 — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2022)Provides approximate locator.
Locator: Episkopi-Bamboula record
Research description
Episkopi-Bamboula is important for coastal settlement and mortuary sequences, but reanalysis of ceramics undermined older claims of uninterrupted occupation through the entire transition. Regional activity may persist even where excavated cemetery continuity is not secure.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides chronological caution
Transition from Bronze to Iron at Kourion: A Review of the Tombs from Episkopi-Bamboula and Kaloriziki — Louise Steel (1996)Directly challenges older continuity claims.
Locator: Reassessment of tombs - informs · contextualizes
Alassa: Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000 — Sophocles Hadjisavvas (2017)Links coast and upper valley without imposing political unity.
Locator: Kouris inland context - informs · locates
Cyprus Settlements Dataset, Version 1.0.0 — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2022)Provides approximate locator.
Locator: Episkopi-Bamboula record
Referenced records
- Kouris Valley and Alassa–Kourion corridor · entity
- Geography assertion for site_kourion_bamboula · geography assertion