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Khirokitia is an archaeological site on the island of Cyprus dating from the Neolithic age. It has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1998. The site is known as one of the most important and best preserved prehistoric sites of the eastern Mediterranean.
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Petros Nikolaou Basketry Workshop & Museum
30 Gr. Afxentiou str., 7741, Choirokoitia, Cyprus
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Q8XX+5GJ, Choirokoitia 7741, Cyprus
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Neolithic Settlement of Choirokoitia

Q8WV+HHG, Choirokoitia 7741, Cyprus
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Khirokitia is an archaeological site on the island of Cyprus dating from the Neolithic age. It has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1998. The site is known as one of the most important and best preserved prehistoric sites of the eastern Mediterranean.

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Petros Nikolaou Basketry Workshop & Museum

Petros Nikolaou Basketry Workshop & Museum

Petros Nikolaou Basketry Workshop & Museum

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Angie OAngie O
This place it was on my wishlist for years and today I decided to make the trip there and I'm wasn't at all disappointed. The site it has the original hut houses on the top of the hill and a small site at the bottom of the hill with reconstructed for visitors to see how were originally and how people lived back 100.000 years ago. The Neolithic village is a UNESCO site and after walking around it I could see why. I have taken the route up to the hill and I could see clearly the settlement how it was years ago, but there are also a lot of details to read so you get to understand the findings. I have walked the whole route and walking through the nature path could see where the Maroni river was passing and why it was important to build the village there in the first place. Also walking the nature path you get to see all the beauty of Spring with wild flowers everywhere. Most of the finds from the settlement are in the Larnaca Archaeological museum which I have visited a few hours before I made my way to Choirokitia which by combining the 2 together I could visually see how they lived and survived by. The entrance fee is 2.50 euros which it wasn't bad for spending nearly two hours walking on the site. There are toilet facilities which there were clean but not a cafe. The site is open from 8.30 to 17.00 in the Winter months and from 8.30 to 19.00 in the Summer. There is not wheelchair access to the site, but they can just visit the reconstructed huts. Also the Department of Antiquities can issue special entry cards for 1, 3 or 7 days at a reduced price and also a pensioners special entry card. For more information you can visit www.mcw.gov.cy/da
Tom AndrewsTom Andrews
Really interesting. Felt there could have been a better layout and information boards. But when it was this phenomenally cheap though, you can't really moan. €5 for a family of 4, which included leaflets explaining the site, although the English translations could have been improved. If this was in any other country, especially England, it would be a massive tourist trap charging a fortune (see: Cheddar Gorge / Stonehenge) but it almost seems forgotten about, as with so much of the rest of Cyprus' massive, and incredible history.
CyprusmyloveCyprusmylove
Chirokitia to stanowisko archeologiczne w południowej części Cypru, w miejscowości Chirokitia. Zachowały się tu pozostałości neolitycznej osady z VI tysiąclecia p.n.e., w 1998 roku wpisane na listę światowego dziedzictwa kultury UNESCO. Osadę założyli prawdopodobnie przybysze z Lewantu lub Anatolii. Znalezione na terenie narzędzia świadczą o rolniczym charakterze mieszkającej tu społeczności. Zachowała się także produkowana z kości zwierząt broń myśliwska, co skłania do uznania łowiectwa za drugi pod względem znaczenia sposób zdobywania żywności. W początkowej fazie istnienia osady nie znano tu techniki wyrobu ceramiki, w starszych warstwach osadowych na terenie wykopalisk odkryto jedynie andezytowe i zdobione reliefami naczynia. W późniejszym okresie pojawiła się także ceramika wyrabiana bez użycia koła garncarskiego. Zachowały się tu także pozostałości neolitycznych grobów. Zmarłych grzebano pod podłogą domostw w pozycji embrionalnej, a ich piersi przygniatano ciężkim kamieniem – jak się sądzi, robiono tak z obawy, aby zmarły nie powstał z grobu. W grobach kobiet odnaleziono ozdoby z kamienia i muszli. Szacuje się, że w szczytowym okresie istnienia osady zamieszkiwało ją od 1500 do 2000 osób, co czyni Chirokitię jedną z największych znanych osad neolitycznych.
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This place it was on my wishlist for years and today I decided to make the trip there and I'm wasn't at all disappointed. The site it has the original hut houses on the top of the hill and a small site at the bottom of the hill with reconstructed for visitors to see how were originally and how people lived back 100.000 years ago. The Neolithic village is a UNESCO site and after walking around it I could see why. I have taken the route up to the hill and I could see clearly the settlement how it was years ago, but there are also a lot of details to read so you get to understand the findings. I have walked the whole route and walking through the nature path could see where the Maroni river was passing and why it was important to build the village there in the first place. Also walking the nature path you get to see all the beauty of Spring with wild flowers everywhere. Most of the finds from the settlement are in the Larnaca Archaeological museum which I have visited a few hours before I made my way to Choirokitia which by combining the 2 together I could visually see how they lived and survived by. The entrance fee is 2.50 euros which it wasn't bad for spending nearly two hours walking on the site. There are toilet facilities which there were clean but not a cafe. The site is open from 8.30 to 17.00 in the Winter months and from 8.30 to 19.00 in the Summer. There is not wheelchair access to the site, but they can just visit the reconstructed huts. Also the Department of Antiquities can issue special entry cards for 1, 3 or 7 days at a reduced price and also a pensioners special entry card. For more information you can visit www.mcw.gov.cy/da
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Really interesting. Felt there could have been a better layout and information boards. But when it was this phenomenally cheap though, you can't really moan. €5 for a family of 4, which included leaflets explaining the site, although the English translations could have been improved. If this was in any other country, especially England, it would be a massive tourist trap charging a fortune (see: Cheddar Gorge / Stonehenge) but it almost seems forgotten about, as with so much of the rest of Cyprus' massive, and incredible history.
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Chirokitia to stanowisko archeologiczne w południowej części Cypru, w miejscowości Chirokitia. Zachowały się tu pozostałości neolitycznej osady z VI tysiąclecia p.n.e., w 1998 roku wpisane na listę światowego dziedzictwa kultury UNESCO. Osadę założyli prawdopodobnie przybysze z Lewantu lub Anatolii. Znalezione na terenie narzędzia świadczą o rolniczym charakterze mieszkającej tu społeczności. Zachowała się także produkowana z kości zwierząt broń myśliwska, co skłania do uznania łowiectwa za drugi pod względem znaczenia sposób zdobywania żywności. W początkowej fazie istnienia osady nie znano tu techniki wyrobu ceramiki, w starszych warstwach osadowych na terenie wykopalisk odkryto jedynie andezytowe i zdobione reliefami naczynia. W późniejszym okresie pojawiła się także ceramika wyrabiana bez użycia koła garncarskiego. Zachowały się tu także pozostałości neolitycznych grobów. Zmarłych grzebano pod podłogą domostw w pozycji embrionalnej, a ich piersi przygniatano ciężkim kamieniem – jak się sądzi, robiono tak z obawy, aby zmarły nie powstał z grobu. W grobach kobiet odnaleziono ozdoby z kamienia i muszli. Szacuje się, że w szczytowym okresie istnienia osady zamieszkiwało ją od 1500 do 2000 osób, co czyni Chirokitię jedną z największych znanych osad neolitycznych.
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This place it was on my wishlist for years and today I decided to make the trip there and I'm wasn't at all disappointed. The site it has the original hut houses on the top of the hill and a small site at the bottom of the hill with reconstructed for visitors to see how were originally and how people lived back 100.000 years ago. The Neolithic village is a UNESCO site and after walking around it I could see why. I have taken the route up to the hill and I could see clearly the settlement how it was years ago, but there are also a lot of details to read so you get to understand the findings. I have walked the whole route and walking through the nature path could see where the Maroni river was passing and why it was important to build the village there in the first place. Also walking the nature path you get to see all the beauty of Spring with wild flowers everywhere. Most of the finds from the settlement are in the Larnaca Archaeological museum which I have visited a few hours before I made my way to Choirokitia which by combining the 2 together I could visually see how they lived and survived by. The entrance fee is 2.50 euros which it wasn't bad for spending nearly two hours walking on the site. There are toilet facilities which there were clean but not a cafe. The site is open from 8.30 to 17.00 in the Winter months and from 8.30 to 19.00 in the Summer. There is not wheelchair access to the site, but they can just visit the reconstructed huts. Also the Department of Antiquities can issue special entry cards for 1, 3 or 7 days at a reduced price and also a pensioners special entry card. For more information you can visit...

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18w

Es sieht dort wirklich schön aus,sehr viele Ausgrabungsstellen,viele Ruinen-ich denke mal aus Sandstein und mehr...Hier eine Info von dem Aetokremnos:

Aetokremnos (griech.: Adlerklippe[1]) ist ein Abri bei Limassol an der Südküste Zyperns, der 40 m über dem Meeresspiegel liegt.

Abri von Aetokremnos, 1960

Auf ca. 40 m² Fläche wurden in vier Schichten (die dritte ist steril) zahlreiche Knochen von Hippopotamus minor (ein verzwergter Vertreter des Flusspferdes) sowie etwa tausend Flintartefakte gefunden. Damit war Aetokremnos lange Zeit der einzige Fundplatz auf der Insel, der einer vorneolithischen und damit einer Jäger-und-Sammler-Kultur angehörte. Mit Roudia (7,2 ± 1,3 bis 12,8 ± 1,6 ka) kam ein zweiter Fundplatz aus dieser Epoche hinzu, der wohl noch älter ist.[2]

Zu den Flusspferdknochen kamen Knochen von etwa drei Individuen der Art Palaeoloxodon cypriotes, eine ebenfalls verzwergte Elefantenform, sowie Überreste von Fischen und Vögeln, vier Knochen von Damwild, 13 von Schweinen. Das Lager wurde auf etwa 9825 v. Chr. datiert.[3]

Zunächst nahm man an, damit den Beleg gefunden zu haben, dass die Jäger die Flusspferde wie die übrigen Vertreter der Megafauna ausgerottet hätten. Doch wiesen die Knochen keine Schnittspuren aufwiesen, hingegen 30 % von ihnen Brandspuren. Außerdem zeigte sich, dass 74 % der Knochen von Zwergflusspferden, 25 % von Fischen und Vögeln stammten, jedoch fanden sich nur Überreste von drei Elefanten. Die Flusspferde hingegen repräsentierten etwa 500 Individuen. Da sich die Zahl der Flusspferde von unten nach oben, also von den ältesten zu den jüngsten Schichten verminderte, zugleich der Anteil der anderen Tiere anstieg, folgerte Simmons, dass die übermäßig erfolgreichen Jäger gezwungen waren, nunmehr anderen Arten nachzustellen.

Die Anwesenheit von Schweinen überraschte insofern, als man geglaubt hatte, sie seien erst mit den ersten Siedlern des Neolithikums auf die Insel gekommen, also einer bäuerlichen Kultur. Sie waren neben Damwild die einzigen größeren Säugetiere auf der Insel.

Neben den genannten fanden sich Knochen von mindestens drei Schlangenarten, der Levanteotter (Macrovipera lebetina), der Pfeilnatter und der Zypern-Ringelnatter, (Natrix natrix cypriaca), einer heute bedrohten Unterart der Ringelnatter, sowie Überreste der Wechselkröte. Von den Knochen stammen 98,3 % von der Levanteotter.[4]

Inzwischen wurde durch einen Schädelfund bei Xylophágou im Südosten Zyperns der Nachweis erbracht, dass es auf Zypern eine zweite Elefantenart gab (Palaeoloxodon...

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34w

A well preserved archaeological site which is now a good tourist attraction. There is even a trail for hiking around it. I like the attention to detail that went into the reconstruction of the houses.

It gives you a rough idea how the Neolithic people of Cyprus lived. Giving is a fascinating glimpse of a primitive life. Very enlightening.

Well done to everyone involved.

The ticket was nice and cheap.

The only downside is that the information boards are not well presented or organised properly. Their information is written in Greek, English, and French, all over the place, it's a bit tricky to find the English translation for things. They could have kept them separate but that's a minor thing.

Overall a good place to visit for history and archaeology...

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