entity · site_maa_palaeokastro
Maa-Palaeokastro
Also known as: Maa, Palaeokastro
Short-lived fortified coastal settlement with destruction, rebuilding, and final abandonment phases.
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.
1220 BCE–1150 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Excavations at Maa-Palaeokastro 1979–1986 — Vassos Karageorghis, Martha Demas (1988)Primary evidence for foundation, destruction, rebuilding, and abandonment.
Locator: Excavation sequence - informs · provides source criticism
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)Challenges simple colonist or invader labels.
Locator: Migration and hybridization reassessment - 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)Places Maa within west-Cyprus trajectories.
Locator: Regional transition synthesis
Research description
Maa-Palaeokastro was established near the end of the thirteenth century BCE, experienced a destructive episode, was rebuilt, and was abandoned in the twelfth century. The identities of founders and attackers remain unproven.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Planned or defensible settlement
Settlement with evidence for coordinated layout, enclosure, topographic defensibility, or fortification.
Why does this record have this property?
Coastal defences and coordinated construction are securely excavated.
- Excavations at Maa-Palaeokastro 1979–1986
supports assignment · Architecture
Site-specific destruction sequence
One or more destruction horizons documented at a particular site.
Why does this record have this property?
A destructive episode, rebuilding, and final abandonment form separate phases.
- Excavations at Maa-Palaeokastro 1979–1986
supports assignment · Stratigraphic sequence
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 Maa-Palaeokastro.
- 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 Maa-Palaeokastro.
- supports · supports entity record
Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age — Jesse Michael Millek (2023)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Maa-Palaeokastro.
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Excavations at Maa-Palaeokastro 1979–1986 — Vassos Karageorghis, Martha Demas (1988)Primary evidence for foundation, destruction, rebuilding, and abandonment.
Locator: Excavation sequence - informs · provides source criticism
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)Challenges simple colonist or invader labels.
Locator: Migration and hybridization reassessment - 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)Places Maa within west-Cyprus trajectories.
Locator: Regional transition synthesis
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_maa_palaeokastro · geography assertion
- Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape · entity