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  • Cyprus, Kalavasos
  • geo:34.752491,33.303333
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Kalavasos Tenta

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The  pre-ceramic, Neolithic "Tenta" settlement  (7000 -- 6000 BC) is located on a small, natural hill. The buildings are circular structure built of stone or  with rough-hewn stones in the lower part of the walls  with mud-bricks above. The floor consist of plain beaten ground. There were found remains of paintings - a feddish colour.

Sources:

  1. http://www.mcw.gov.cy/mcw/da/da.nsf/All/F9048934D768E989C225719B003413CE?OpenDocument
  2. http://www.kalavasos.org/en/archaeological-len/ancienties-len
  3. A. Bernard Knapp, The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory Through the Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press 2013, pp.103 nn

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-09-29) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/22453
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Suggested citation: , E. , Kalavasos Tenta. https://vici.org/vici/22453, accessed 2026-06-04.