Book contents
- 6000 BC
- 6000 BC
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Upper Mesopotamia and Eastern Mediterranean
- Chapter 2 The Late Neolithic Site of Shir in Western Syria
- Chapter 3 Containers of Change
- Chapter 4 Mersin-Yumuktepe in the 7th Millennium BC
- Chapter 5 Changing with the Years
- Part II Anatolia
- Part III Aegean and Marmara
- Part IV Southeast Europe
- Part V Modeling the Change
- Part VI Commentaries
- Index
- References
Chapter 5 - Changing with the Years
Khirokitia (Cyprus) at the Turn of the 7th to the 6th Millennium BC
from Part I - Upper Mesopotamia and Eastern Mediterranean
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2022
Book contents
- 6000 BC
- 6000 BC
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Upper Mesopotamia and Eastern Mediterranean
- Chapter 2 The Late Neolithic Site of Shir in Western Syria
- Chapter 3 Containers of Change
- Chapter 4 Mersin-Yumuktepe in the 7th Millennium BC
- Chapter 5 Changing with the Years
- Part II Anatolia
- Part III Aegean and Marmara
- Part IV Southeast Europe
- Part V Modeling the Change
- Part VI Commentaries
- Index
- References
Summary
The history of Khirokitia, an Aceramic Neolithic village in Cyprus, is marked by a series of successive events clearly evidenced by variations in the spatial extent and organization of the village; the major one in the course of its occupation was an outstanding shift of the built area that happened around the end of the 7th millennium cal BC. As for changes in climatic, the study of the hydromorphological evolution of the riverbed running at the foot of the hill has revealed the existence of torrential flows and violent erosion that seem to indicate the onset of an erratic and concentrated precipitation during the occupation of the village. This chapter focuses on these main events that affected the village and investigates changes and continuities that can be observed in the environment as well as in the village relationship to the environment, subsistence strategies, craft techniques and activities organization, architectural practices, social organization and rituals.
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- 6000 BCTransformation and Change in the Near East and Europe, pp. 64 - 80Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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