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5 June 2011

Completion of the French mission excavations at the site of “Klimonas” at Ayios Tychonas (Cyprus)

The Ministry of Communications and Works, Department of Antiquities, announces the completion of the 2011 investigations at the site of “Klimonas” (Ayios Tychonas, Limassol District). The investigations were conducted by the French Archaeological Mission led by Jean Guilaine (Collège de France), François Briois (EHESS) and Jean-Denis Vigne (CNRS-Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle). This year’s investigations have revealed the remains of an impressive, partially subterranean circular building, approximately 10 m. in diameter. The building is very similar to the large communal buildings that have been excavated in several villages dated to the second half of the earliest phase of the Neolithic in the Northern Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, PPNA; from 9500 to 8500 BC), which have been interpreted as buildings for meeting and common storage. Stone tools, faunal remains and radiocarbon dating have confirmed that the building at Klimonas dates to the first half of the 9th millennium. It is also associated with the remains of several other smaller buildings and with archaeological layers with fire places, most of them not yet excavated.

Read more: www.cyprus.gov.cy

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