From Ten to Naught: Formation, Consolidation and Abolition of Cyprus’ Iron Age Polities

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peer-reviewed journal article

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Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, vol. 32, 73–87

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Yes

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• event Early Neo-Assyrian consolidation
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · Historically attested Cypriot polities

  Separates later political evidence from earlier reconstruction.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · Historically attested Cypriot polities

  Separates later political evidence from earlier reconstruction.

• causal hypothesis Cyprus underwent variable decentralization and recentralization
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · contextualizes · Later polity formation

  Defines the later endpoint.

• relationship Early Neo-Assyrian consolidation — occurred at or affected — Cyprus eastern Mediterranean maritime interaction zone
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · Historically attested Cypriot polities

  Separates later political evidence from earlier reconstruction.

• date assertion Early Neo-Assyrian consolidation — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contextualizes · Historically attested Cypriot polities

  Separates later political evidence from earlier reconstruction.

• date assertion Cypro-Geometric III through 800 BCE — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · dates · Early Iron Age chronology

  Only the portion through approximately 800 BCE is included; the full phase extends beyond the package endpoint in some schemes.

• claim The emergence of Cypriot city-kingdoms may combine continuity of regional centres, new institutions, sanctuary authority, demographic concentration, and external connections rat…
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · contextualizes · Formation of historically attested polities

  Defines later evidence.

• claim Later historically attested city-kingdom territories must not be projected backward into Late Cypriot II or III without direct phase-specific evidence.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ near certain
  supports · supports · Formation, consolidation and abolition

  Shows changing first-millennium political geography.