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Location:

  • Cyprus, Ágios Týchon
  • geo:34.712551,33.133736
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -8700 / unknown

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

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The Ayios Tychonas-Klimonas in the Lemesos (Limassol) District site was an early Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement. It was a village with more than 20 round buildings with a diameter of between 3 and 6 meters surrounding the biggest (10 meter  in diameter) communal building . The houses were built of  earth with a wooden skeletons . The floors were often plastered.  The interior was equipped with a hearth sometimes with  many stones.

Sources:

  1. Jean-Denis Vigne, François Briois, Antoine Zazzo, Isabelle Carrère,Julie Daujat, and Jean Guilaine, A new early Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Cyprus: Ayios Tychonas – Klimonas (ca. 8700 cal. BC), NEO-LITHICS 1/11, The Newsletter of Southwest Asian Neolithic Research
  2. http://www.mcw.gov.cy/mcw/da/da.nsf/All/599B93744FE4F0E2422578A40033B94F?OpenDocument

 

 


Nearby

Acropolis of Amathous [Amathus]

Acropolis of ancient Amathos.

Aqeduct to Amathous [Amathus]

Roman aq

Agora of Amathous [Amathus]

Agora at Amathus.


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