Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- List of Text-figures
- Preface
- CHAPTER XITHE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD IN EGYPT
- CHAPTER XIITHE LAST PREDYNASTIC PERIOD IN BABYLONIA
- CHAPTER XIIITHE CITIES OF BABYLONIA
- CHAPTER XIVTHE OLD KINGDOM IN EGYPT AND THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD
- CHAPTER XVPALESTINE IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE
- CHAPTER XVITHE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD IN MESOPOTAMIA
- CHAPTER XVIISYRIA BEFORE 2200 B.C.
- CHAPTER XVIIIANATOLIA, c. 4000–2300 b.c.
- CHAPTER XIXTHE DYNASTY OF AGADE AND THE GUTIAN INVASION
- CHAPTER XXTHE MIDDLE KINGDOM IN EGYPT: INTERNAL HISTORY FROM THE RISE OF THE HERACLEOPOLITANS TO THE DEATH OF AMMENEMES III
- CHAPTER XXISYRIA AND PALESTINE c. 2160–1780 b.c.
- CHAPTER XXIIBABYLONIA, c. 2120–1800 B.C.
- CHAPTER XXIIIPERSIA, c. 2400–1800 B.C.
- CHAPTER XXIV (a)ANATOLIA, c. 2300–1750 B.C.
- CHAPTER XXIV(b)ANATOLIA IN THE OLD ASSYRIAN PERIOD
- CHAPTER XXVASSYRIA, c. 2600–1816 B.C.
- CHAPTER XXVI(a)GREECE, CRETE, AND THE AEGEAN ISLANDS IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE
- CHAPTER XXVI(b)CYPRUS IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE
- CHAPTER XXVIIIMMIGRANTS FROM THE NORTH
- BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- Chronological Tables
- Index to Maps
- General Index
- Map 6. Babylonia and Western Persia.
- Map 12. Early Bronze Age sites in Greece and the Aegean Islands.
- Map 16. Map to illustrate movements of northern peoples in the third to first millennia B.C.
- References
CHAPTER XXVI(b) - CYPRUS IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- List of Text-figures
- Preface
- CHAPTER XITHE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD IN EGYPT
- CHAPTER XIITHE LAST PREDYNASTIC PERIOD IN BABYLONIA
- CHAPTER XIIITHE CITIES OF BABYLONIA
- CHAPTER XIVTHE OLD KINGDOM IN EGYPT AND THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD
- CHAPTER XVPALESTINE IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE
- CHAPTER XVITHE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD IN MESOPOTAMIA
- CHAPTER XVIISYRIA BEFORE 2200 B.C.
- CHAPTER XVIIIANATOLIA, c. 4000–2300 b.c.
- CHAPTER XIXTHE DYNASTY OF AGADE AND THE GUTIAN INVASION
- CHAPTER XXTHE MIDDLE KINGDOM IN EGYPT: INTERNAL HISTORY FROM THE RISE OF THE HERACLEOPOLITANS TO THE DEATH OF AMMENEMES III
- CHAPTER XXISYRIA AND PALESTINE c. 2160–1780 b.c.
- CHAPTER XXIIBABYLONIA, c. 2120–1800 B.C.
- CHAPTER XXIIIPERSIA, c. 2400–1800 B.C.
- CHAPTER XXIV (a)ANATOLIA, c. 2300–1750 B.C.
- CHAPTER XXIV(b)ANATOLIA IN THE OLD ASSYRIAN PERIOD
- CHAPTER XXVASSYRIA, c. 2600–1816 B.C.
- CHAPTER XXVI(a)GREECE, CRETE, AND THE AEGEAN ISLANDS IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE
- CHAPTER XXVI(b)CYPRUS IN THE EARLY BRONZE AGE
- CHAPTER XXVIIIMMIGRANTS FROM THE NORTH
- BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- Chronological Tables
- Index to Maps
- General Index
- Map 6. Babylonia and Western Persia.
- Map 12. Early Bronze Age sites in Greece and the Aegean Islands.
- Map 16. Map to illustrate movements of northern peoples in the third to first millennia B.C.
- References
Summary
In Cyprus, as in other regions, the course of the Bronze Age has been divided into three main stages, Early, Middle and Late. Each stage is further subdivided into three phases, I, II and III, which, in their turn may be split into subperiods, A, B, and C. By analogy with Early, Middle and Late Helladic, Minoan and Cycladic in Greece, Crete and the Islands respectively, the terms Early, Middle and Late Cypriot (abbreviated to E.C., M.C. and L.C.) are used.
THE IDENTITY OF THE EARLIEST BRONZE AGE SETTLERS
The beginning of the Early Cypriot period synchronizes fairly closely with the disastrous end of the E.B. 2 period in Anatolia, c. 2300 b.c.; it may, indeed, prove to have been a direct outcome of this major Anatolian catastrophe. Its duration seems to have been between four and five hundred years; the transition to the Middle Cypriot stage is an ill-defined process, but may with some probability be placed in the century between 1900 and 1800 b.c., in view of synchronisms with Crete demonstrated by Minoan vases and weapons found as imports in north Cyprus.
The account that can be given of the Early Cypriot period is very imperfect, depending almost wholly as it does upon the evidence of cemeteries and their contents. Only at the very end of the period is it possible to draw on evidence provided by settlements.
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- The Cambridge Ancient History , pp. 808 - 823Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1971
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