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	Cyprus - Khirokitia - Ministère des Affaires étrangères
		Khirokitia settlement which foundation occured during the 7th millenium illustrates the apogee of the Cypriot Aceramic Neolithic.
		It gives the opportunity to study the evolution of this civilization which, according to the last discoveries, appeared on the island at the end of the 9th millenium.
		Khirokitia is a large village inhabited by farmers.
	www.diplomatie.gouv.fr /en/france-priorities_1/archaeology_2200/archaeology-notebooks_2202/ancient-east_2224/cyprus-khirokitia_2231/index.html (149 words)

	Cyprus in the Aceramic period
		The aceramic culture of Khirokitia - is dated by the C-14 method to the sixth millennium B C (6020, 5850 and 5800 B C).
		Two features of the culture have no parallels elsewhere; a flint industry of peculiar type which is not microlithic, possibly a descendant of the Upper Palaeolithic, and secondly a round-headed (brachycephalic) population at Khirokitia itself, perhaps the result of isolation or a habit of cranial deformation.
		Khirokitia is not a mound, but a hill site about 2 5 0 metres in diameter situated within a bend of the Maroniou river.
	www.aai.freeservers.com /cyprus_in_the_aceramic_period.htm (1106 words)

	Neolithic Age in Cyprus & Khirokitians
		The settlement at Khirokitia (near the southern coast) which is now dated to well before 6,000 B.C., is one of the most remarkable Neolithic communities ever excavated in Europe.
		Khirokitia, and a few smaller associated settlements appear to have died out after a few centuries, leaving the island uninhabited for some 2,000 years.
		The beginning of the next period of habitation, known as the Sotira culture, is dated between 4,500 and 4,000 B.C.; small villages of this culture found not only (in the south, near Curium) but also in the Kyrenia range.
	www.cypnet.co.uk /ncyprus/history/02.htm (192 words)

	The Prehistoric Society - Book Review
		Le Brun and Daune-Le Brun proceed with a summary of Khirokitia and Cape Andreas-Kastros illustrating a dichotomy in the settlement pattern.
		Interestingly, micro-wear analysis indicated that the investigated Khirokitia sample was mainly used for two kinds of activities; domestic and cereal harvesting.
		However we may note, that the Pinus (pine) increase in samples of around 5700 BC may not be due to the local expansion of Pinus, but rather an indicator of hardwood depletion around the site and the import of wood from the Troodos Mountains where softwoods grew.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /prehistoric/reviews/04_11_guilaine.htm (2300 words)

	KALAVASOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Groups of structures have been recognized at Khirokitia surrounding open courtyards or areas, but such units are not so easily recognizable amongst the structures on the east side of the top of Tenta.
		In contrast to the custom at nearby Khirokitia, grave goods were very rarely deposited with the dead, and the only artifact found at Tenta in association with a burial was a small lump of worked red ochre found with a child buried on the north side of Structure 9.
		Perhaps one of the most important features to emerge from the analysis of the skeletal remains is that at least a degree of artificial cranial deformation was practiced, and approximately 11% of the skeletons provide evidence of occipital flattening.
	www.kalavasos.org /english/arxaio_xoroi_tenta.shtm (3907 words)

	Shillourokambos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sickles are made of multiple parts, and projectile points made of bipolar blades, lacking in the later Khirokitia culture, are common.
		The middle and late phases (7500 BC) conform more closely to the Khirokitia culture with circular stone houses, comparable to those at Kastros.
		Imported obsidian is rare, and sickles are made from single robust blades.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shillourokambos (378 words)

	Thomo's Hole - Ancient Places Visited - Cyprus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Around 20 or so Neolithic settlements have been uncovered on Cyprus and Khirokitia is one of them.
		In the majority of cases, grave gifts were not provided and the body of the dead was covered with a heavy stone, as seen in the reconstruction of such a grave in the Larnaka Museum.
		The first inhabitants arrived at Khirokitia (Choirokoitia) 9,000 years ago and settled on this hill that overlooks a tributary of the river Maroni.
	ourworld.cs.com /thomothelost1/ancient_places/cyprus.html (2128 words)

	History of ARCHITECTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One step up from outside, to keep out the rain, leads to several steps down into each room; seats and storage spaces are shaped into the walls; and in at least one house there is a ladder to an upper sleeping platform.
		Buildings very similar to those in Khirokitia are still lived in today in parts of southern Italy, where they are known as trulli.
		Whether it is a mud hut with a thatched roof in tribal Africa, or an igloo of the Eskimo, the circle remains the obvious form in which to build a roofed house from the majority of natural materials.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab27 (1182 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Chypre : Khirokitia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This website is published by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and focuses on the site of Khirokitia, Cyprus.
		Khirokitia is a eighth millennium BC settlement located on the southern coast of Cyprus and belonging to the Cypriote Preceramic Neolithic period.
		A few illustrated articles summarise the discoveries at the site, which include a wall and a protective architectural structure at the entrance of the settlement, and circular huts.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=17797 (207 words)

	Khirokitia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Khirokitia is built at an average altitude of 220 meters above sea level and the river of Agios Minas fragments its landscape. Khirokitia receives an annual average rainfall of about 450 millimetres; citrus, olive, and locust trees, cereals, forage plants, vegetables and a few fruit trees are cultivated in the region.
		The refinery of Khirokitia lies north-east of the village, which is supplied with water from the dams of Lefkara and of Dipotamos. After being distilled, the water is channelled through water-pipes to the areas of Nicosia, Larnaca, and Famagusta for water supply purposes.
		Also according to the Great Encyclopaedia of Cyprus, the village was granted -since the beginning of the Frank domination -to the Order of the Knights Templar and then to the Order of St.
	www.khirokitia.org /english/istoria.shtm (143 words)

	Page Title
		But most of our information about life in that period is derived from the settlement of Khirokitia, excavated between 1936 and 1939.
		According to a number of uncalibrated carbon datings ranging from 5800 to 5500 BC, the island of Cyprus was first inhabited during the sixth millennium BC.
		As was the case with all other aceramic sites, Khirokitia suddenly came to an end.
	www.urantiabook.org /archive/newsletters/innerface/vol3_4/page4.html (767 words)

	Cyprus Roundtable (University Update 11/11/98 - Other Articles)
		Now, for the first time, scholars digging these three sites will meet to discuss their latest, often conflicting findings, and the location will be the University on Monday, Nov. 16.
		Swiny noted that in the 1980s, Vassos Karageorghis, then director of the Cypriot Department of Antiquities and an acknowledged expert in the field of Cypriot archaeology, placed the earliest human presence on the island of Cyprus around 7,000 BC.
		He named the long established type-site of the period as Khirokitia; a large Neolithic settlement with its roundhouses and an economy based on the herding of sheep and goats.
	www.albany.edu /classics/Cyp98/rtable98rpt.html (1076 words)

	Cyprus History Of Conflict
		The first undisputed settlements are believed to have been established towards the end of the 8th millennium BC.
		Neolithic Cypriots built circular houses with small undressed stones for the lower structures and sun-dried mudbricks and clay for the middle and superstructure.
		The Khirokitia neolithic settlement in Larnaca district stands out as a striking example of prehistoric architecture.
	www.studyworld.com /basementpapers/sec_papers/Cyprus_History_Of_Conflict.html (1745 words)

	Cyprus Island - Information - Archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It has been said that if you “scratch the soil anywhere in Cyprus you will find traces of the islands civilizations.” To prove the point, look at an archeological map, and you'll see that Cyprus is studded with sites from every period of its turbulent history, going back to the Neolithic Age.
		A visit to Khirokitia, near Larnaca proves the point.
		There you'll find excavations that reveal the whole society of a Neolithic settlement dating from 7000 BC; defensive walls, circular houses, and tombs.
	www.cyprusisland.com /01_Information/archaeology.htm (290 words)

	Classical Archaeology: Lecture 13
		Excavations at Khirokitia revealed some of the earliest traces of the Neolithic on Cyprus
		Khirokitia is in the south-center of the island, betwen Kiti and Zyyi on the map.
		Khirokitia is a UNESCO World Heritage site: see http://www.unesco.org/whc/sites/848.htm
	isthmia.osu.edu /teg/hist306/lec14.htm (298 words)

	My Way - News
		But experts suspected that people discovered the unique charm and usefulness of cats long before then.
		Vigne's team unearthed a grave site in the Neolithic village of Khirokitia that was filled with polished stone, axes, a pigment called ochre and flint tools.
		A pit filled with sea shells was nearby.
	news.myway.com /odd/article/id/396372\|oddlyenough\|04-08-2004::15:09\|reuters.html (388 words)

	The House of Archaeology and Ethnology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As it is illustrated by the site of Khirokitia, the 7th millennium is at the summit of its glory.
		- In Cyprus ; Khirokitia : 7th-6th millennium B.C., re-settled in the 5th millennium, is located in South Cyprus.
		Discovered in 1934 and partly excavated (1936-1946) by P. Dikaios (Antiquities Department of Cyprus), the excavations were resumed in 1977 by a French Expedition (CNRS/ French Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
	web.mae.u-paris10.fr /traduction/gbdetail1.php?ID=32906 (308 words)

	Agora - Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first scientific research of the area was undertaken by the Cypriot archaeologist Porphyrios Dikaios, who had also excavated at Khirokitia, in 1939 and continued into the 1940s.
		Following a lull during which various accidental archaeological discoveries were made periodically in Kalavasos, a multidisciplinary research project was conceived by Ian A. Todd in 1975.
		The prehistoric sites of Kalavasos-Tenta and Khirokitia belong to the Aceramic Neolithic and both share certain common features: they were surrounded by walls and had mudbrick and/or stone circular domestic structures.
	www.cyprusculture.com /product.asp?sku=397 (311 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		However, continuing excavation and detailed study of the multiple phases at crucial sites such as Khirokitia and Kissonerga Mosphilia, along with a steady proliferation of new and reliable radiocarbon dates, are making considerable progress toward clarifying and reducing the discontinuities.
		The heavy concentration of early prehistoric investigation in the western part of the island is also helping to reduce some difficulties attributable to regional distinctions.
		Important recent publications relating to the early periods include two volumes of final reports on major excavations: the aceramic Neolithic site of Kalavasos Tenta, where the earliest large-scale painted human representation in Cyprus was found, [19] and the first volume on Chalcolithic Lemba Lakkous.
	members.aol.com /EastMedit/aja/aja95.html (17994 words)

	KCPT: Stories Under the Stone
		In Jericho dead people were buried under the floor without their skulls, which were restored as part of a burial ritual.
		People lived in settlements and cities, including Catal Huyulk in Anatolia in Turkey and Khirokitia in Cyprus, where cemeteries have been excavated.
		In Egypt dead bodies were buried in the sand of the desert, where they would be preserved for thousands of years.
	www.kcpt.org /stories/burialcustoms.shtml (540 words)

	Ancient Cyprus webproject
		Angel L.J. (1953) The Human remains from Khirokitia in Dikaios P. Khirokitia: Final report on the excavation of a Neolithic settlement in Cyprus on behalf of the Department of Antiquities, 1936-1946, Oxford, 416-430
		Davis S.J.M. (1984) Khirokitia and its mammal remains, A Neolithic Noah’s Ark in Le Brun A. Fouilles recentes a Khirokitia (Chypre)1977-1981, Tome I: Texte, Paris, 147-162
		Dikaios P. Khirokitia: Final report on the excavation of a Neolithic settlement in Cyprus on behalf of the Department of Antiquities, 1936-1946, Oxford
	www.ancientcyprus.ac.uk /papers/Tsaliki1/tsaliki1biblio.html (1293 words)

	ToddI_5_2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A trench in the ceramic area of the site revealed only a water-laid deposit of very friable, heavily encrusted sherds.
		The aceramic artifactual yield continues to resemble that of the nearby site of Khirokitia with a few clear differences.
		A small number of obsidian blades provides evidence of contact with the Anatolian mainland.
	www.bu.edu /jfa/Abstracts/T/ToddI_5_2.html (314 words)

	Semitic Museum - Cesnola - ArchaeoChronoChronology - Neolithic
		The newcomers (whether from Anatolia or Syria-Palestine is uncertain) settled at sites throughout the island including Cape Andreas Kastros on the Karpas peninsula and Khirokitia and Kalavassos Tenta and Parakleshia Shillourokambos (the earliest site so far known) near the southeast coast.
		They built circular houses of mud and stone, buried their dead beneath the floors, herded cattle (at least initially), sheep, goats, and pigs, hunted fallow deer, and cultivated cereals, all practices imported from the mainland.
		For unknown reasons, their settlements ended and an enigmatic 1000-year gap ensued.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/Cesnola/ArchChronoNeol.html (403 words)

	Cyprus: Sites & Excavations - Ancient Near East .net
		Enkomi, a Late Bronze Age city on Cyprus - COMPASS (British Museum)
		Khirokitia - Les développements du Néolithique précéramique dans l'île de Chypre (French Foreign Ministry website)
		agia varvara-almyras : ais yiorkis : amathonte : atheniou : bamboula : enkomi : idalion : khirokitia : kissonerga-mosphilia : kyrenia : lemba : marki-alonia : maroni tsaroukkas : paphos : phlamoudhi : politiko-phorades : salamis : shillourokambos : troodos mts : vasilikos valley : yeronisos island
	www.ancientneareast.net /cyprus.html (463 words)

	Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 00-10-28 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The "Troodos" Rally, which ends tomorrow, will cover 760 kilometres and comprises two legs with an overall of 14 special stages of 234 kilometres.
		Nicosia, Oct 28 (CNA) - The French Archaeological Mission of the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), under the direction of Dr. Alain Le Brun, resumed its excavation at the Neolithic site of Khirokitia, located on a hillside.
		The team found a building remarkable for its size and inner organisation.
	www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/cyprus/cna/2000/00-10-28.cna.html (568 words)

	IngentaConnect Table Of Contents: Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique
		Author: Willcox, G. Unstable Status of Early Domestic Ungulates in the Near East: the Example of Shillourokambos (Cyprus, IXth-VIIIth Millennia cal. B.C.)
		Authors: Vigne, J.-D.; Carrere, I.; Guilaine, J. The Zooarchaeology of Khirokitia (Neolithic Cyprus), Including a View from the Mainland
		Author: Guilaine, J. Ideologie et symboles a Khirokitia: la
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/docdel/2840.110000/2003/-/43 (391 words)

	Sports In Larnaca District Inland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Paintball park located on the old Nicosia-Limassol road between Kornos and Kofinou, 20 minutes away from Nicosia and Larnaca and 25 minutes from Limassol.
		Webpage on the official website of the village of Khirokitia, 33 kilometres west of Larnaca on the Limassol-Nicosia highway, describing the nature trail joining the village with the archeological site of Khirokitia.
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	www.diytraveldirectory.com /rCY/cySPLAI_01_Larnaca_Inland_Sports.html (142 words)

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