entity · site_nitovikla
Nitovikla
Also known as: Nitovikla fortress
Defensible Karpas site historically interpreted as a fortress within eastern Cypriot networks.
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 · locates
Cyprus Settlements Dataset, Version 1.0.0 — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2022)Provides approximate locator and occupational metadata.
Locator: Nitovikla record - informs · contextualizes
The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age — A. Bernard Knapp (2013)Provides critical synthesis.
Locator: Late Cypriot settlement and forts debate - 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)Limits static functional labels.
Locator: Regional settlement trajectories
Research description
Nitovikla is relevant to Karpas settlement and defensive-landscape questions, but older labels such as fortress and assumed integration into an island-wide system require renewed chronological and functional scrutiny.
Evidence and sources
- informs · locates
Cyprus Settlements Dataset, Version 1.0.0 — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2022)Provides approximate locator and occupational metadata.
Locator: Nitovikla record - informs · contextualizes
The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age — A. Bernard Knapp (2013)Provides critical synthesis.
Locator: Late Cypriot settlement and forts debate - 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)Limits static functional labels.
Locator: Regional settlement trajectories
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_nitovikla · geography assertion
- Karpas Peninsula Late Bronze Age landscape · entity