Maa Palaeokastro

Maa Palaeokastro was a Late Bronze Age settlement in southwest Cyprus, near the modern city of Kouklia. The settlement was occupied from the late 13th century BC to the middle of the 12th century BC.[1][2] It was located on a peninsula and fortified, suggesting that the site may have been used for defensive purposes. Artifacts found also indicate metal-working and trade took place.[1] The settlement was abandoned as part of the Late Bronze Age collapse after a few generations of inhabitance.[2]

Overview of the modern site

See also

References
  1. Georgiou, Artemis (2016). "Cylinder-Seal Impressions on Storage Vessels at Maa-Palaeokastro: Elucidating an Idiosyncratic Late Cypriot Mechanism". In Driessen, Jan (ed.). RA-PI-NE-U: Studies on the Mycenaean World offered to Robert Laffineur for his 70th Birthday. Presses universitaires de Louvain.
  2. Georgiou, Artemis (2012). Pyla-Kokkinokremos, Maa-Palaeokastro and the settlement histories of Cyprus in the twelfth century BC. University of Oxford.
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