entity · site_maroni_vournes
Maroni-Vournes
Also known as: Vournes
Monumental and urban component of the Maroni settlement complex with ashlar architecture, storage, administration, and regional integration.
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.
1500 BCE–1200 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Becoming Urban: Investigating the Anatomy of the Maroni Late Bronze Age Complex, Cyprus — Sturt W. Manning, Georgia Marina Andreou, Kevin D. Fisher, Peregrine Gerard-Little, Catherine Kearns, Jeffrey F. Leon, David A. Sewell, Thomas M. Urban (2014)Documents urban anatomy and regional extent.
Locator: Maroni complex synthesis - 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 distinction from destroyed sites.
Locator: Abandonment and resilience synthesis - informs · locates
Cyprus Settlements Dataset, Version 1.0.0 — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2022)Provides locator consistency check.
Locator: Maroni settlement entries
Research description
Maroni-Vournes formed part of a dispersed urban complex rather than an isolated palace point. Evidence suggests orderly removal of portable goods and abandonment around the end of the thirteenth century, with no securely demonstrated violent destruction of the whole complex.
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?
Monumental buildings and storage formed part of the Maroni urban complex.
- Becoming Urban: Investigating the Anatomy of the Maroni Late Bronze Age Complex, Cyprus
supports assignment · Urban complex synthesis
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Becoming Urban: Investigating the Anatomy of the Maroni Late Bronze Age Complex, Cyprus — Sturt W. Manning, Georgia Marina Andreou, Kevin D. Fisher, Peregrine Gerard-Little, Catherine Kearns, Jeffrey F. Leon, David A. Sewell, Thomas M. Urban (2014)Documents urban anatomy and regional extent.
Locator: Maroni complex synthesis - 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 distinction from destroyed sites.
Locator: Abandonment and resilience synthesis - informs · locates
Cyprus Settlements Dataset, Version 1.0.0 — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2022)Provides locator consistency check.
Locator: Maroni settlement entries
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_maroni_vournes · geography assertion
- Vasilikos–Maroni production and settlement corridor · entity