Early Chalcolitic Period (circa. 3,800-3,500 B.C.)

Early settlement patterns on Cyprus are characterized by repeated shifts to locale. Continuous settlement drift suggests chronic instability, perhaps due to the inability of the society to exploit its resources sufficiently to cope with increased population. 

There is some reason to believe that a more general dislocation took place at the beginning of the fourth millennium B.C. In contrast to most Late Neolithic sites before that time, subsequent occupations have failed to yield upstanding stone architecture, suggesting a major change in a settlement type. 

Moreover, these sites produced new styles of pottery and other artefacts, several of which have proved new styles of pottery and other artefacts. It is, therefore, a formative period in which many critical changes took place.

• Middle Chalcolitic period (circa. 3,500-2,800 B.C.)

• Late Chalcolitic period (circa. 2,800-2,500 B.C.)

 

 


 
 

 

  

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