entity · site_pyla_kokkinokremos
Pyla-Kokkinokremos
Also known as: Kokkinokremos, Pyla-Kokkinokremmos
Short-lived planned and defensible settlement with diverse local and imported material, hoards, writing, and a proposed coastal landing area.
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.
1250 BCE–1180 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides project evidence
C-PEPL: Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus — C-PEPL Project, Honor Frost Foundation (2022)Documents recent interpretation and presumed harbour caveat.
Locator: Current project synthesis - informs · provides archaeological observation
Pyla-Kokkinokremos: A Late 13th-Century B.C. Fortified Settlement in Cyprus — Vassos Karageorghis, Martha Demas (1984)Documents architecture and material sequence.
Locator: Foundational excavation report - informs · provides source criticism
Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean: ‘Exotic Currency’ and Objects of Connectivity — A. Bernard Knapp (2022)Limits ethnic inference from material diversity.
Locator: Objects and connectivity
Research description
Pyla-Kokkinokremos was founded in the later thirteenth century BCE and abandoned within one or two generations. Its diverse material repertoire demonstrates wide connections and household choices but is not a direct census of a multi-ethnic population.
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?
Regular units, enclosure, and defensible topography indicate coordinated planning.
- C-PEPL: Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus
supports assignment · Settlement plan
Mixed material repertoire
Assemblage combining local Cypriot and multiple external or external-style traditions.
Why does this record have this property?
Local, Aegean, Minoan, Levantine, Anatolian, Egyptian, and Sardinian-associated objects occur in abandonment contexts.
- C-PEPL: Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus
supports assignment · Material repertoire
Harbour or anchorage candidate
Coastal locality with environmental or archaeological evidence for landing, sheltered water, or maritime access.
Why does this record have this property?
Structures and topography suggest a landing place on the south slope, but a formal harbour has not been demonstrated.
- C-PEPL: Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus
supports assignment · Presumed harbour discussion
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides project evidence
C-PEPL: Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus — C-PEPL Project, Honor Frost Foundation (2022)Documents recent interpretation and presumed harbour caveat.
Locator: Current project synthesis - informs · provides archaeological observation
Pyla-Kokkinokremos: A Late 13th-Century B.C. Fortified Settlement in Cyprus — Vassos Karageorghis, Martha Demas (1984)Documents architecture and material sequence.
Locator: Foundational excavation report - informs · provides source criticism
Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean: ‘Exotic Currency’ and Objects of Connectivity — A. Bernard Knapp (2022)Limits ethnic inference from material diversity.
Locator: Objects and connectivity
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_pyla_kokkinokremos · geography assertion
- Larnaca Bay Late Bronze Age landscape · entity