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Erimi-Laonin Tou Porakou (Limassol, Cyprus): Radiocarbon Analyses of the Bronze Age Cemetery and Workshop Complex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

C Scirè Calabrisotto ,
M E Fedi ,
L Caforio  and
L Bombardieri
C Scirè Calabrisotto*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Università di Firenze, Piazza Brunelleschi 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
M E Fedi
Affiliation:
INFN Sezione di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy
L Caforio
Affiliation:
INFN Sezione di Firenze, via Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), Italy Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Ferrara, via Saragat 1, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
L Bombardieri
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Università di Firenze, Piazza Brunelleschi 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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The site area of Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou (Limassol, Cyprus) has been surveyed and systematically excavated since 2007 as a joint research project of the University of Florence and the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus. A focused investigation was dedicated to analyzing funerary evidence from the southern Cemetery (Area E), where 7 single-chamber graves were excavated. The offering goods assemblages from the burials point to a general date ranging from Early to Late Bronze Age I, and draw a sequence of use that is contemporary to the stratigraphic deposits from the top mound Workshop Complex (Area A). During the 2010 field season, charcoal samples from the Workshop Complex and bone samples from the skeleton remains of 2 burials (tombs 228, 230) were opportunely taken for radiocarbon analyses. 14C dating was performed at the AMS-IBA Tandetron accelerator of the INFN-LABEC Laboratory in Florence. This paper will discuss the results of the 14C analyses and compare them with the archaeological evidence in order to outline a chronological sequence for the settlement and cemetery areas at Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou, thus collecting further data on the development and pattern of occupation of the Early to Late Cypriote period in the Kourion area.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 54 , Issue 3-4 , 2012 , pp. 475 - 482
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Copyright © 2012 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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