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<< Our Photo Pages >> Choirokoitia - Ancient Village or Settlement in Cyprus

Submitted by AlexHunger on Wednesday, 08 February 2006  Page Views: 9765

Multi-periodSite Name: Choirokoitia
Country: Cyprus
NOTE: This site is 8.362 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 34.796770N  Longitude: 33.343580E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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43559959 visited on 5th May 2018 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5

Catrinm visited on 9th Mar 2018 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Fascinating site earliest remains of which are from 9 th millenium bce . Finds in Cyprus Museum .

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Choirokoitia
Choirokoitia submitted by AlexHunger : Choirokoitia as seen from uphill facing south. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Cyprus

Neolithic settlement in Southern Cyprus with round stones houses.
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Choirokoitia
Choirokoitia submitted by Catrinm : Site in Cyprus (Vote or comment on this photo)

Choirokoitia
Choirokoitia submitted by AlexHunger : Choirokhoitia as seen from uphill facing south. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Choirokoitia
Choirokoitia submitted by 43559959 : Choirokoitia, Site in Cyprus. Reconstruction of a part of the Neolithic settlement. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Choirokoitia
Choirokoitia submitted by regina : The reconstructed hut (scan from a photo taken oct. 2000) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Choirokoitia
Choirokoitia submitted by AlexHunger : Choirokoitia is a neolithic village just West of Limassos on a hill facing south towards the sea. It was inhabitted between 7000 and 4000 BCE. It consists of round stone huts and a defensive rampart. Unussualy, the dead were buried beneath the floors. A reconstructed hut is located near the entrance/parking lot and excavations from the burials are located in the wonderful Nicosia Museum. It is tho...

Choirokoitia
Choirokoitia submitted by 43559959 : A fisheye view of inside the neolithic site Choirokoitia. Site in Cyprus

Choirokoitia
Choirokoitia submitted by regina : Picture taken trough the window of the hut (scan from a photo taken oct. 2000)

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Re: Choirokoitia by coldrum on Sunday, 04 October 2009
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Completion of the archaeological excavations at Choirokoitia for 2009

The Department of Antiquities of the Ministry of Communications and Works announces the completion of the archaeological excavations at the Neolithic site of Choirokoitia. Excavations were carried out in July and August by the National Centre of Scientific Research of France under the direction of Dr A. Le Brun.

Research undertaken in 2005 on the north side of the hill where the site is installed was completed. The aim of this research was to determine the outline of the walls, which constituted the successive boundaries of the settlement.

The results obtained have, in many points, profoundly altered our view of the site of Choirokoitia and, more widely, our knowledge concerning the recent phase of the Neolithic Aceramic period of Cyprus.

Research of previous years has shown that the expansion of the built area on the south side occurred simultaneously with the abandonment of the north side. Therefore, the history of the settlement needed to be reconsidered: it must be interpreted as a rearrangement of the built environment rather than the expansion of the village.

This year’s archaeological campaign contested the idea that we had until now concerning the way in which the site was inserted in the space. The wall, which constitutes the primitive limit of the establishment, was found in a deep trench near the river. Initially it was thought that the course of the wall was perpendicular to the flow of the river thus completing the natural protection of the river where it was absent. The new evidence has shown that the wall follows a parallel course to the bed of the river Maroni. Therefore, the village has to be seen differently, as a village enclosed by a wall made of massive pisé with its exterior façade revetted in stone. The elevation of such a construction at such length expresses a collective effort which supposes a strongly structured social organization.

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