
Published online:
31 January 2012
Published in print:
27 October 2005
Online ISBN:
9780191734618
Print ISBN:
9780197263259
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Introduction Introduction
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The First Urban Episode The First Urban Episode
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Urban Interruption Urban Interruption
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Gains, Continuities and Novelties Gains, Continuities and Novelties
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Settlement History Settlement History
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Iron Age Settlement Longevity Iron Age Settlement Longevity
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Visibility Problem and Urbanization Visibility Problem and Urbanization
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Salamis: une cité portuaire (Pouilloux , 35) Salamis: une cité portuaire (Pouilloux , 35)
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Déjà vu Déjà vu
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Amathous Amathous
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Idalion Idalion
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Kourion Kourion
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Kition and Palaipaphos Kition and Palaipaphos
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Summary Summary
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Conclusions Conclusions
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References References
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Chapter
2 The Early Iron Age Urban Forms of Cyprus
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Pages
17–43
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Published:October 2005
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Iacovou, Maria, 'The Early Iron Age Urban Forms of Cyprus', in Robin Osborne, and Barry Cunliffe (eds), Mediterranean Urbanization 800-600 BC (London , 2005; online edn, British Academy Scholarship Online, 31 Jan. 2012), https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197263259.003.0002, accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines the local conditions, traditions, and forms of urban settlement in Cyprus during the Iron Age. It explains that almost to the very end of the Middle Bronze Age, Cyprus had remained a closed rural society, though it was by then completely surrounded by Mediterranean urban states and it was only by 1100 BC that new social and economic structures started to dictate the establishment and development of new population and power centers. The archaeological evidence of 800–600 BC stands testimony to the culmination of a long process of social evolution and urbanization.
Keywords:
urban settlement, Cyprus, Iron Age, rural society, urban states, Mediterranean, social evolution, urbanization
Subject
Historical Archaeology
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