For Yous Data - Of Import Finds At Politiko-Troullia Together With Pyla-Koutsopetria Excavations On Cyprus Island

Cyprus' Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications too Works, announced the completion of the 2018 archaeological investigations at the Bronze Age (ca. 2100-1850 B.C.) site of Politiko-Troullia, conducted nether the direction of Dr Steven Falconer too Dr Patricia Fall, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA. Politiko-Troullia is situated some 25 km southwest of Nicosia, close Ayios Irakleidios Monastery, inwards the copper-bearing foothills of the Troodos Mountains. Bronze Age Politiko-Troullia seems to convey been the predecessor of ancient Tamassos, the spot of a centrally of import kingdom during the subsequent Iron Age.

Storage pithoid found inwards situ at Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus. 2000-1500 BC
[Credit: Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus]

The 2018 archaeological investigations included expanded analysis of archaeological evidence excavated too surveyed betwixt 2004 too 2017. Recent inquiry has revealed extensive evidence of several fascinating features of Bronze Age life inwards the Troodos hinterland: 1) The remains of deer carcasses betoken large-scale community feasting at Politiko-Troullia on Mesopotamian fallow deer, which were hunted inwards the nearby oak/pine woodlands. 2) The villagers of Politiko-Troullia mined local copper deposits, too conducted business solid copper metallurgy, including smelting too casting a multifariousness of copper too bronze tools (e.g., blades, chisels too axe-heads). The settlement was probable abandoned due to substantial erosion (possibly fueled past times heavy rains) too the lowering of neighboring Kamaras Creek, later on which the hamlet good too H2O source dried up.

The results from Politiko-Troullia opened upward an archaeological window on the farming too mining communities that provided the foundation for urbanised civilisation on the isle of Cyprus. The excavators are specially grateful for the collegial back upward of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, collaboration amongst the Republic of Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (Lefkosia), too for the variety encouragement too friendship offered to the projection past times the community of Pera Orinis, nigh especially past times Mayor Theodosia Mau Partasi, quondam Mayor Mr Costas Miliotis, Mr Ioannis Demetriades, too other friends too colleagues inwards the Pera community.

Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project 

The Department of Antiquities also announces that the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project (PKAP) completed its 14th flavor on 8 June 2018 nether the direction of Dr. Brandon R. Olson of Metropolitan State University of Denver, Dr. Tom Landvatter of Reed College, too Dr. R. Scott Moore of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.The master copy finish of the project, which commenced inwards 2004, was to hit a comprehensive written report of the coastal manifestly inwards the vicinity of Pyla-Koutsopetria portion which lies on the coast betwixt the eastern fringe of Larnaka too the western border of the Dhekelia cantonment.

Remains of Hellenistic fortification at Pyla-Koutsopetria [Credit: Department of Antiquities,
Republic of Cyprus]

In the summers of 2008, 2009, too 2012 PKAP patch teams excavated a serial of small-scale soundings on the plateau of Pyla-Vigla that revealed the presence of a previously unknown Hellenistic fortification. The steep slopes of this loma provided both a potent defensible location, every bit good every bit an advantageous thought of Larnaka Bay too the surrounding coastal plain. This strategic location, too the uncovering this yr of a large rock-cut fortification wall, sling bullet, too catapult bolt demonstrate the site's armed forces function. Furthermore, the architectural, ceramic, too numismatic evidence discovered during previous seasons clearly appointment the draw of the fortifications on Vigla to the belatedly quaternary too early on third centuries B.C., a menstruation non good documented inwards Cypriot history.

PKAP’s results from previous seasons were presented inwards numerous articles too culminated inwards the project’s starting fourth dimension volume, PylaKoutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of an Ancient Coastal Town, published past times the American Schools of Oriental Research inwards 2014.The finish of the PKAP 2018 patch flavor was threefold: to ascertain whether the monumental fortification wall discovered inwards 2012 continued across the northern border of the plateau, to create upward one's heed the appointment too structure of the fortification organisation if possible, too to consummate the written report of the previously collected early on Hellenistic pottery for publication inwards Pyla-Koutsopetria II.

The small-scale sounding excavated past times the 2018 squad revealed an impressive inwards situ mudbrick wall constructed on overstep of a large cutting stone wall, situated on bedrock. At the base of operations of this wall was discovered a small, purposefully constructed sleeping room containing pottery fragments too faunal material, peradventure the remains of a foundation deposit from the structure of this wall. This uncovering substantiates the chronology of the Vigla settlement established past times the 3 previous seasons of express earthworks inwards 2008, 2009, 2012, too indicates that at that spot was to a greater extent than monumental structure on the Vigla plateau than previously believed. Future PKAP piece of employment planned for Vigla volition piece of employment to embrace improve the size too complexity of this Hellenistic fortification, every bit good every bit the role it played inwards the history of the region.

Source: Press too Information Office, Ministry of Interior, Republic of Republic of Cyprus [July 05, 2018]


Sumber http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com

Buat lebih berguna, kongsi: