The Cemeteries at Marki: Using a looted landscape to investigate prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus

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This work presents the results of an intensive site survey of three Prehistoric Bronze Age cemeteries in the vicinity of Marki Alonia, in central Cyprus, These cemeteries contained around 370 pit and chamber tombs, and were used from the Philia facies of the Early Cypriot Bronze Age into the Middle Cypriot period. Each of the cemeteries has been looted since WWII, with the result that a sizeable scatter of ceramic artifacts lies across their surfaces. It is this scatter that forms the main subject of this work. The monograph also provides a detailed technical analysis of the large ceramic assemblage recovered from the surveyed cemeteries. It concludes that the ceramics interred in Prehistoric Bronze Age cemeteries differed little from those used in day-to-day life in the settlement, and that although mortuary assemblages from across Cyprus were generally similar, some idiosyncrasies existed from site to site.