Figure 2: Red Polished IV spouted bowl (KS651). The bowl was smashed in place and a fragment deliberately removed during the Bronze Age. The handle was already missing when the bowl was deposited. Photo Source: Cyprus Department of Antiquities
Posted on 01/01/2019 7:14:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The site demonstrates a long Bronze Age sequence, and earlier Chalcolithic occupation, starting before 2,500 BC and connected with the neighbouring Neolithic–Philia phase settlement of Kissonerga-Mosphilia. The site was abandoned around 1600 BC, during the transition to the Late Cypriot Bronze Age.
During the final occupation phase a complex including some roofed areas and large open spaces was built. The complex has no evidence for domestic occupation and activities seem to be industrial, including large fire-related installations and the previously published malting kiln likely used in beer production... The majority of features and emplacements are associated with the primary construction phase and during a second later phase some of these were deliberately floored over. It is likely that we are seeing a decline in the site, with a decrease in activities and perhaps a slow abandonment. This is further suggested by the number of mended pottery vessels found on the final floors, perhaps indicating that there were no potters remaining in the last years of occupation.
In the northern areas two walls run approximately parallel and form a contained space. On the interior faces of both walls wall tumble and collapse has been investigated, suggesting that this area may have been roofed and as the roof collapsed both walls were drawn inwards. This collapse was further investigated in 2018, exposing a further area of working space with large stone grinders and a stone platform for supporting a post or a vessel. Figure 1 depicts this area in the centre lower left of the photograph. Associated with this arrangement was a large Red Polished IV spouted bowl which had been deliberately smashed in place and a piece of the base removed (Figure 2), presumably to collect and drain a material ground with one of the stone grinders.
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Figure 2: Red Polished IV spouted bowl (KS651). The bowl was smashed in place and a fragment deliberately removed during the Bronze Age. The handle was already missing when the bowl was deposited. Photo Source: Cyprus Department of Antiquities
Full title: Long Bronze Age sequence and earlier Chalcolithic occupation discovered by excavations at Kisonerga-Skalia.
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