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Location

  • Cyprus, Ágios Týchon
  • geo:34.712551,33.133736
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • -8700 / unknown

Classification

  • rural
  • Visible

Identifiers

Ayios Tychonas-Klimonas

data access 22983

The Ayios Tychonas-Klimonas in the Lemesos (Limassol) District site was an early Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement. It was a village with more than 20 round buildings with a diameter of between 3 and 6 meters surrounding the biggest (10 meter  in diameter) communal building . The houses were built of  earth with a wooden skeletons . The floors were often plastered.  The interior was equipped with a hearth sometimes with  many stones.

Sources:

  1. Jean-Denis Vigne, François Briois, Antoine Zazzo, Isabelle Carrère,Julie Daujat, and Jean Guilaine, A new early Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Cyprus: Ayios Tychonas – Klimonas (ca. 8700 cal. BC), NEO-LITHICS 1/11, The Newsletter of Southwest Asian Neolithic Research
  2. http://www.mcw.gov.cy/mcw/da/da.nsf/All/599B93744FE4F0E2422578A40033B94F?OpenDocument

 

 

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-10-21) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/22983
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: , E. , Ayios Tychonas-Klimonas. https://vici.org/vici/22983, accessed 2026-06-04.