CYPRUS IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE

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(b) - CYPRUS IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE

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H. W. Catling

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C. J. Gadd ,

N. G. L. Hammond and

E. Sollberger

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INTRODUCTION

In the five hundred years that the Late Bronze Age lasted in Cyprus the island finally entered into full association with her more developed neighbours. This brought not only a share of their greater cultural sophistication and material prosperity but also of the troubles which beset them and the disasters by which they were eventually overwhelmed. When the end of the period was reached, Cypriot material culture had largely lost its special character, which for better or worse had distinguished it in the preceding phases of the Bronze Age, and had assumed a flavour almost entirely compounded of influences from stronger neighbours.

The Late Cypriot period is divided into three main phases, of which L.C. I occupies the years c. 1550-1400 B.C., L.C. II the years 1400-1200 B.C. and L.C. III the final stages from 1200-1050 B.C. These main phases have been divided into a number of subphases, which are not of immediate concern. In many respects, L.C. I is an extension of the Middle Bronze Age, and this is strongly reflected in its material culture. L.C. II coincides with the island's high prosperity in the period of intimate trading ties with the Aegean. Material culture shed its homespun quality. The beginning of L.C. III witnessed major convulsions in neighbouring areas, and the arrival in Cyprus of refugee settlers from Greece whose appearance marked the first major step in the Hellenization of the island, including, it is to be presumed, the introduction of the Arcado-Cypriot version of the Greek tongue.

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Cypriot settlement Aegean connexion Alashiyan kingdom Late Bronze Age

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Information: The Cambridge Ancient History , pp. 188 - 216

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