Shillourokambos. A Pre-Pottery Neolithic Settlement in Cyprus. Excavations in Sector 3.
CNRS| N° d'inventaire | 23534 |
| Format | 21 x 28 |
| Détails | 775 pages, numerous illustrations and maps, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782271130631 |
After appearing on the Asian continent from the 10th millennium BC, "Neolithization" spread widely. The site of Shillourokambos in Cyprus is a reference for understanding the very beginnings of this diffusion process and the first extension of Neolithic characteristics in the Mediterranean. Founded around the middle of the 9th millennium BC, it was occupied until the end of the 8th century, for a period of approximately 1,500 years, covering the entire Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Levant (PPNB).
The areas excavated between 1991 and 2004 by the "Neolithization" mission, with the support of the French School of Athens, are divided into two parts: one, to the north, called "sector 1", the other, to the south, called
"sector 3". The second was excavated mainly between 1999 and 2003. It is this area that is now published, where the remains of the middle and recent stages of occupation were best attested and could lend themselves to a certain spatial analysis. It allows a detailed study of the evolved periods of the site, between 7600 and 7000 BC and an approach to these essential moments in the formation of the culture that would flourish in the 7th millennium BC at Khirokitia. In addition to the introduction of certain animal species (deer, sheep and probably the fox), the massive emergence of sheep and cattle breeding and the development of agriculture at the turn of the 9th-8th millennia, we can see technical changes in construction, lithic and bone tools and symbolic productions. It is in this sector 3 that the oldest known evidence of the domestication of the cat was discovered. Important information concerns the economic prospects perceived from the evolution of fauna and artifacts. The health status of the settlement's populations is also discussed.
Following the publication of sector 1 in 2011, the archaeological community now has all the documentary data from the excavations of the “Neolithization” mission at Shillourokambos.
After appearing on the Asian continent from the 10th millennium BC, "Neolithization" spread widely. The site of Shillourokambos in Cyprus is a reference for understanding the very beginnings of this diffusion process and the first extension of Neolithic characteristics in the Mediterranean. Founded around the middle of the 9th millennium BC, it was occupied until the end of the 8th century, for a period of approximately 1,500 years, covering the entire Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Levant (PPNB).
The areas excavated between 1991 and 2004 by the "Neolithization" mission, with the support of the French School of Athens, are divided into two parts: one, to the north, called "sector 1", the other, to the south, called
"sector 3". The second was excavated mainly between 1999 and 2003. It is this area that is now published, where the remains of the middle and recent stages of occupation were best attested and could lend themselves to a certain spatial analysis. It allows a detailed study of the evolved periods of the site, between 7600 and 7000 BC and an approach to these essential moments in the formation of the culture that would flourish in the 7th millennium BC at Khirokitia. In addition to the introduction of certain animal species (deer, sheep and probably the fox), the massive emergence of sheep and cattle breeding and the development of agriculture at the turn of the 9th-8th millennia, we can see technical changes in construction, lithic and bone tools and symbolic productions. It is in this sector 3 that the oldest known evidence of the domestication of the cat was discovered. Important information concerns the economic prospects perceived from the evolution of fauna and artifacts. The health status of the settlement's populations is also discussed.
Following the publication of sector 1 in 2011, the archaeological community now has all the documentary data from the excavations of the “Neolithization” mission at Shillourokambos.