Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus
Introduction
Intensive survey and initial excavations have succeeded in pushing back the Neolithic human occupation of Cyprus to the earlier ninth millennium cal BC. Contemporary with PPNA in the Levant, and with signs of belonging to the same intellectual community, these were not marginalised foragers, but participants in the developing Neolithic project, which was therefore effectively networked over the sea.
A selection of arrowhead/projectiles recovered from Ayia Varvara Asprokremnos. Scale 0.1m total length.
MANNING, S. W., MCCARTNEY, C., KROMER, B. & STEWART, S. T. (2010) The earlier Neolithic in Cyprus: recognition and dating of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A occupation. Antiquity, 84: 693-706
McCartney, C. Manning, S.W., Sewell, D.A . & Stewart, S.T. (2010). New Perspectives on the Early Holocene Landscape in Cyprus . Conference proceedings of Landscapes in Transition: understanding hunter-gatherer and farming landscapes in the early Holocene of Europe and the Levant . 26-30 March 2007, Jordan
MCCARTNEY, C., S.W.MANNING, S. ROSENDHAL & S. STEWART. 2008. Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus (EENC): preliminary report on the 2007 field season: excavations and regional field survey at Agia Varvara-Asprokremnos. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2008: 67–86.
MCCARTNEY, C., P. CROFT, S.W. MANNING & S. ROSENDHAL. 2009. Preliminary report on the 2008 EENC excavations at Agia Varvara-Asprokremnos and regional field survey. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: 1–16.
McCartney, C. Manning, S.W., Sewell, D.A. & Stewart, S.T. The EENC 2006 Field Season; Excavations at Agia Varvara-Asprokremmos and survey of the local early Holocene landscape. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2007. 27-44
McCartney, C. Manning, S.W., Sewell, D.A . & Stewart, S. 2006. Elaborating Early Neolithic Cyprus (EENC): Report on the 2005 Field Season. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2006
One of the two shaft-straighteners (or ‘pierres `a rainue’), G150, recovered thus far from the Ayia Varvara Asprokremnos excavations. Found in context 86, Trench 06 (found in context immediately above C29 from context 99). Contexts 86, 99 (with C29), 101 (with C27), and 105 (with C40) are contiguous fine layers in the same phase of dumping. Scale 0.1m total length.
Portraits
EENC 2005 excavation team
Portraits of the 2008 excavation team taken by D.A. Sewell
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