1. The Middle Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age Chronology of Cyprus: Refinements and Reconstructions

Transformative copper metallurgy in Chalcolithic Cyprus: a reappraisal

“…This Kampos assemblage has been the focus of substantial investigations in the past decade and can now be convincingly attributed to the Early Bronze 1 period (Day et al 1998: 136;Davaras & Betancourt 2012;Tsipopoulou 2012: 215). The argument that the chronology of prehistoric Cyprus requires modification, and that the Philia phase dates to the first half of the third millennium BC (Bourke 2014)advanced on the basis of the aforementioned metal finds in Jordan and Crete-now seems untenable due to substantial work on the absolute chronology of Cyprus (Peltenburg et al 2013;Manning 2014;Paraskeva 2019). Finally, if Philia-phase settlers migrated from Anatolia, how did they know about the existence of copper ore deposits on Cyprus?…”