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Location:

  • Cyprus, Kalavasos
  • geo:34.752491,33.303333
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -8800 / -2000

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=22453

Annotations

The  pre-ceramic, Neolithic "Tenta" settlement  (7000 -- 6000 BC) is located on a small, natural hill. The buildings are circular structure built of stone or  with rough-hewn stones in the lower part of the walls  with mud-bricks above. The floor consist of plain beaten ground. There were found remains of paintings - a feddish colour.

Sources:

  1. http://www.mcw.gov.cy/mcw/da/da.nsf/All/F9048934D768E989C225719B003413CE?OpenDocument
  2. http://www.kalavasos.org/en/archaeological-len/ancienties-len
  3. A. Bernard Knapp, The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory Through the Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press 2013, pp.103 nn

Relevant museums

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia

Lefkosia. Archeological museum


Nearby

Kalavassos Tenta, Stone vessel

The neolithic settlement in Cyprus.

Maroni-Tsaroukkas (5 km)

Ancient port

Khirokitia - Choirokoitia (6 km)

Neolithic settlement in Cyprus.


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