Klimonas
Klimonas is the oldest Mediterranean island village. Occupied ca. 8 800 cal BC, it postpones by several centuries the Neolithic presence in Cyprus, at that time located more than 80 km offshore. The village extended over more than 5,500 m2, facing the sea, 2 km from the famous pre-pottery site of Sh...
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| description | Klimonas is the oldest Mediterranean island village. Occupied ca. 8 800 cal BC, it postpones by several centuries the Neolithic presence in Cyprus, at that time located more than 80 km offshore. The village extended over more than 5,500 m2, facing the sea, 2 km from the famous pre-pottery site of Shillourokambos and near rich flint outcrops. Excavations (2009-2016) revealed that it was composed of circular or oval earthen buildings 3-6 m in diameter, notched into the slope, modestly fitted out and organised around a semi-buried 10 m communal building. The construction techniques, the abundance of either knapped or polished stone material, together with ornaments, symbolic objects, and plants and animal remains, as well as the 52 radiometric dates, point to the end of the Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA). The presence of a communal building, rebuilt numerous times over the course of several decades, also points to the same conclusion. The villagers gathered seeds and fruits and cultivated wild starch and einkorn, recently imported from the continent. They primarily hunted small endemic wild boar, the only large mammal species attested on the island at that time and, secondarily, birds. They did not eat fish or marine shellfish. Domestic dogs, mice and cats brought from the continent also lived in the village. The remains of this cultivator-hunter community testify to the early extension of the Near Eastern Neolithic and to unsuspected seafaring skills, substantially improving our knowledge of the Neolithic transition in the Mediterranean. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1492612025-01-06T17:53:45Z Klimonas Vigne, Jean-Denis Briois, François Guilaine, Jean archeology prehistory Klimonas Mediterranean Cyprus pre-pottery Neolithic thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology Klimonas is the oldest Mediterranean island village. Occupied ca. 8 800 cal BC, it postpones by several centuries the Neolithic presence in Cyprus, at that time located more than 80 km offshore. The village extended over more than 5,500 m2, facing the sea, 2 km from the famous pre-pottery site of Shillourokambos and near rich flint outcrops. Excavations (2009-2016) revealed that it was composed of circular or oval earthen buildings 3-6 m in diameter, notched into the slope, modestly fitted out and organised around a semi-buried 10 m communal building. The construction techniques, the abundance of either knapped or polished stone material, together with ornaments, symbolic objects, and plants and animal remains, as well as the 52 radiometric dates, point to the end of the Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA). The presence of a communal building, rebuilt numerous times over the course of several decades, also points to the same conclusion. The villagers gathered seeds and fruits and cultivated wild starch and einkorn, recently imported from the continent. They primarily hunted small endemic wild boar, the only large mammal species attested on the island at that time and, secondarily, birds. They did not eat fish or marine shellfish. Domestic dogs, mice and cats brought from the continent also lived in the village. The remains of this cultivator-hunter community testify to the early extension of the Near Eastern Neolithic and to unsuspected seafaring skills, substantially improving our knowledge of the Neolithic transition in the Mediterranean. 2025-01-06T17:53:44Z 2025-01-06T17:53:44Z 2024 book ONIX_20250106_9782271153937_51 9782271153937 9782271139535 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/149261 eng Gallia Préhistoire Supplément image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9782271153937/from/openedition https://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/72616 CNRS Éditions 10.4000/129kn 10.4000/129kn 31a36fe0-958f-4d0f-979c-a82b4b915638 9782271153937 9782271139535 632 Paris open access |
| spellingShingle | archeology prehistory Klimonas Mediterranean Cyprus pre-pottery Neolithic thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology Klimonas |
| title | Klimonas |
| title_full | Klimonas |
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| title_short | Klimonas |
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| topic | archeology prehistory Klimonas Mediterranean Cyprus pre-pottery Neolithic thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
| topic_facet | archeology prehistory Klimonas Mediterranean Cyprus pre-pottery Neolithic thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
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