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Erimi-Pamboula : a chalcolithic settlement in Cyprus
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ISBN: 0860545709 Year: 1988 Publisher: Oxford BAR

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Gender through time in the ancient Near East
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ISBN: 9780759110922 Year: 2008 Publisher: Lanham (Md) AltaMira

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A companion to gender prehistory
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Chichester Wiley-Blackwell

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Tell Jerablus Tahtani, Syria , I : mortuary practices at an early Bronze Age fort on the on the Euphrates River
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ISBN: 9781785701436 1785701436 Year: 2015 Publisher: Philadelphia : Oxbow Books,


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Figurine makers of prehistoric Cyprus : settlement and cemeteries at Souskiou
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ISBN: 1789250226 178925020X 9781789250206 9781789250190 1789250196 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books,

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"The Chalcolithic period in Cyprus has been known since Porphyrios Dikaios' excavations at Erimi in the 1930s and through the appearance in the antiquities market of illicitly acquired anthropomorphic cruciform figures, often manufactured from picrolite, a soft blue-green stone. The excavations of the settlement and cemetery at Souskiou Laona reported on in this volume paint a very different picture of life on the island during the late 4th and early 3rd millennia BC. Burial practices at other known sites are generally single inhumations in intramural pit graves, only rarely equipped with artefacts. At Souskiou, multiple inhumations were interred in deep rock-cut tombs clustered in extra-mural cemeteries. Although the sites were also subjected to extensive looting, excavations have revealed complex multi-stage burial practices with arrangements of disarticulated and articulated burials accompanied by a rich variety of grave goods. Chief among these are a multitude of cruciform figurines and pendants. This unusual treatment of the dead, which has not been recorded elsewhere in Cyprus, shifts the focus from the individual to the communal, and provides evidence for significant changes involving kinship group links to common ancestors. Excavations at the Laona settlement have furnished evidence suggesting that it functioned as a specialised centre for the procurement and manufacture of picrolite during its early phase. The subsequent decline of picrolite production and the earliest known occurrence of new types of ornaments, such as faience beads and copper spiral pendants, attest to important changes involving the transformation of personal and social identities during the first centuries of the 3rd millennium BC, a topic that forms a central theme of this final report on the site"--


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Erimi-Pamboula : a Chalcolithic settlement in Cyprus

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The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East : studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg
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ISBN: 9781842174074 184217407X Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford : Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books,

Excavations at Kissonerga-Mosphilia, 1979-1992
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ISBN: 9170811903 9789170811906 Year: 1998 Volume: 2, 1a 70, 2 Publisher: Göteborg: Åström,

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Cypriot ceramics : reading the prehistoric record
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ISBN: 0924171103 9780924171109 Year: 1992 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa.: University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania,


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The Chalcolithic cemetery of Souskiou-Vathyrkakas, Cyprus : investigations of four missions from 1950 to 1977.
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ISBN: 9963364357 Year: 2006 Publisher: Nicosia Ministry of communications and works. Department of antiquities

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