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The Stone Age in Cyprus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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Rich remains from all periods of the Copper and Bronze Age have been found in Cyprus ever since archaeological excavations began there, but hitherto there has been no evidence of a Stone Age. A few implements of stone, some celts and one flint-knife, have been found, but none of them in a Stone Age stratum; those of known provenance are all from the Copper and Bronze Age, and no tombs or other deposits of the Stone Age have been discovered at all. As the Stone Age is represented all round on the mainland, a priori one might be inclined to suppose its existence also in Cyprus, and therefore its non-appearance would be strange in view of the frequent finds of the Copper and Bronze Age.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1926

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References

page 54 note 1 Cyprus Mus. Cat., p. 13 sq.

page 54 note 2 Some celts (uncatalogued) in the Cyprus Museum were found in Bronze Age tombs at Kythrea and Lapithos.

page 55 note 1 B.S.A., xi, 263 sqq., fig. 2.

page 56 note 1 Cp. Cyprus Mus. Cat., p 36, 41 sqq.; Myres, Handbook of the Cesnola Collection, p. 11 sqq.

page 56 note 2 Cf. Cyprus Mus. Cat. 16.

page 58 note 1 Cp. Cyprus Mus. Cat., p. 52; Ohnefalsch-Richter, Kypros, Bible, and Homer, pl. cxlvii, 8; Dussand, Les civilisations préhell., p. 170, fig. 190.

page 58 note 2 See forthcoming Studies on Prehistoric Cyprus.