Bronze Age World

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Type: peer-reviewed open-access journal article
Publication: Open Archaeology, vol. 5, no. 1, 204–234
Peer reviewed: Yes

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entity Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · Landscape and sanctuary synthesis
Supports the gateway-centre reconstruction and cautions about invisible landscape.
date assertion Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · Landscape and sanctuary synthesis
Supports the gateway-centre reconstruction and cautions about invisible landscape.
entity Alassa-Paliotaverna
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · contextualizes · Regional gateway models
Provides comparative political landscape framework.
date assertion Alassa-Paliotaverna — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · Regional gateway models
Provides comparative political landscape framework.
event Final abandonment of Maa-Palaeokastro
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · Western Cyprus settlement hierarchy
Distinguishes Maa from Palaepaphos continuity.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · Western Cyprus settlement hierarchy
Distinguishes Maa from Palaepaphos continuity.
relationship Final abandonment of Maa-Palaeokastro — occurred at or affected — Maa-Palaeokastro
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · Western Cyprus settlement hierarchy
Distinguishes Maa from Palaepaphos continuity.
date assertion Final abandonment of Maa-Palaeokastro — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · Western Cyprus settlement hierarchy
Distinguishes Maa from Palaepaphos continuity.
property Sanctuary or cult context
informs · defines property · Palaepaphos sanctuary landscape
Provides monumental example.
geography assertion Palaepaphos / Kouklia — geography assertion
informs · locates · Palaepaphos sanctuary and urban landscape maps
Representative point for the archaeological site. It is not a settlement footprint, harbour boundary, cemetery extent, or political territory.
entity Unnamed local political and administrative authorities
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · proposes interpretation · Centralized sanctuary planning
Supports local authority at Palaepaphos.
date assertion Unnamed local political and administrative authorities — date assertion
informs · proposes interpretation · Centralized sanctuary planning
Supports local authority at Palaepaphos.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological synthesis · Sanctuary architecture and landscape context
Documents monumentalization and regional role.
event Monumental sanctuary development at Palaepaphos
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological synthesis · Sanctuary architecture and landscape context
Documents monumentalization and regional role.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological synthesis · Sanctuary architecture and landscape context
Documents monumentalization and regional role.
date assertion Monumental sanctuary development at Palaepaphos — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological synthesis · Sanctuary architecture and landscape context
Documents monumentalization and regional role.
relationship Monumental sanctuary development at Palaepaphos — occurred at or affected — Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological synthesis · Sanctuary architecture and landscape context
Documents monumentalization and regional role.
relationship Monumental sanctuary development at Palaepaphos — occurred at or affected — Palaepaphos / Kouklia
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archaeological synthesis · Sanctuary architecture and landscape context
Documents monumentalization and regional role.
causal hypothesis Sanctuary and production monumentalization supported local authority
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · provides case study · Sanctuary and regional centre
Documents long-term monumental authority.
causal hypothesis Local rebuilding and institutional investment supported resilience
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · provides case study · Sanctuary-centred persistence
Documents western institutional continuity.
date assertion Palaepaphos / Kouklia — date assertion
informs · provides landscape interpretation · Full article
Synthesizes gateway role and sanctuary landscape.
entity Palaepaphos / Kouklia
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides landscape interpretation · Full article
Synthesizes gateway role and sanctuary landscape.
relationship Palaepaphos / Kouklia — located within research landscape — Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides landscape interpretation · Full article
Synthesizes gateway role and sanctuary landscape.
property assignment Palaepaphos / Kouklia — has evidence classification — Sanctuary or cult context
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · supports assignment · Sanctuary and landscape
The megalithic sanctuary is the principal monumental expression of the Late Bronze Age centre.
property assignment Palaepaphos / Kouklia — has evidence classification — Proposed political centre with unresolved status
Evidence confidence: high
informs · supports assignment · Regional polity reconstruction
Palaepaphos was a regional gateway and administrative centre, but its Late Bronze Age title and exact territory are unknown.
geography assertion Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape — geography assertion
informs · supports reconstruction · Palaepaphos urban landscape and western regional context
Schematic western regional envelope for Palaepaphos, Maa, cemeteries, production, and coastal approaches. It does not back-project the later kingdom of Paphos.
myth interpretation Agapenor and the Paphian sanctuary as a later foundation tradition
Evidence confidence: low
supports · provides archaeological context · Sanctuary chronology and landscape
Documents independent monumental evidence.
relationship Research record — proposed memory of
Evidence confidence: low
supports · provides archaeological context · Sanctuary chronology and landscape
Documents independent monumental evidence.
relationship Research record — proposed memory of
Evidence confidence: low
supports · provides archaeological context · Sanctuary chronology and landscape
Documents independent monumental evidence.
relationship Research record — proposed memory of
Evidence confidence: low
supports · provides archaeological context · Sanctuary chronology and landscape
Documents independent monumental 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 · provides case study · Paphos landscape
Uses conservative regional reconstruction.
claim The growth or persistence of sanctuaries at Palaepaphos, Kition, Myrtou-Pigadhes, Athienou, and elsewhere does not by itself define a polity border or prove a single cult admini…
Evidence confidence: near certain
supports · supports · Sanctuary landscape method
Reconstructs centrality without a precise border.
claim Kition and Palaepaphos persisted and invested in institutions across the thirteenth–eleventh centuries while several other Late Cypriot urban centres contracted or disappeared.
Evidence confidence: very high
supports · supports · Sanctuary and landscape
Documents western continuity.