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Selected case studies and useful reading questions: what was found, how was it studied and what follows from the evidence?
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The Department of Antiquities of Cyprus dates Kalavasos-Tenta to 7000-5200 BCE, a range that overlaps Khirokitia. What a second site shows about whether Khirokitia was a single case, and what remains open.
UNESCO describes Khirokitia as "the Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus at its peak": round houses, walls, and the dead buried beneath the floors. The sources do not agree, however, on when the settlement began and how long it lasted.
The Department of Antiquities of Cyprus dates the wells at Kissonerga-Mylouthkia to the 9th millennium BCE and counts them among the oldest in the world; a 2003 survey lists their excavation in 1994-1996. What is known about the first settlers' water, and what is not.
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