Contact
For any questions regarding the project please contact
Victor Klinkenberg
University of Cyprus
klinkenberg.victor@ucy.ac.cy
00357.96667983
Or visit our
Chlorakas Palloures
Research into the Middle and Late Chalcolithic of Cyprus
Cyprus Mail reports on Palloures!![]()
Excavations shed light on life in the Copper Age | Cyprus Mail
cyprus-mail.com
Happy Christmas from the Team of Chlorakas Palloures!![]()
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For our final advent calendar present, we give you the gift of joining our excavation team next summer in Cyprus! Please send in your CV and letter of motivation by the 15th of February to Victor Klinkenberg (klinkenberg.victor@uy.ac.cy). We look forward to welcoming to you our wonderful site!
Happy Christmas Eve! As it's only 1 day until Christmas day, we asked some of our excavation team to describe our excavation in just 1 word. Here are a few they came up with... ![]()
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Taverna, teamwork, excitement, watermelon, halloumi, picrolite, sunny, pickaxing, sweaty, digital, fun, gratifying, drone, trenches, cucumbers, pottery, hot, productive, analysing, fulfilling.
With only 2 days to go until Christmas, we are sharing the last of Dr Klinkenberg's findings from his presentation in Cologne about the Chalcolithic Palloures community. After sharing the 3D modelling and Harris Matrix of our potspread in building 15 yesterday, here is his more in-depth explanation...![]()
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'my third point of how houses are used to express identity and status is best illustrated by the overly large buildings and by the burnt buildings we find. While building size may illustrate that there were significant inequalities in society, the burning down of buildings does not correlate with building size. In other words, the size of buildings does not determine how it was later abandoned. This may show that the inequalities expressed at the construction phase were unstable. Status had to be achieved by individuals, and were not heritable or permanent. ![]()
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On this photo we see a stack of pottery and other artefacts as they were left inside Building 15, our most exciting burnt building so far! ![]()
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All in all, it looks like that the people of Palloures shared resources with their community members, while at the same time allowing competition for status or wealth to be present in society. This is exactly what we are trying to define with more detail and nuance.'
Today's advent calendar is very fun, here are some screenshots of a 3D model that is being made from our big potspread that was excavated in the 2021 season. ![]()
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This potspread contained the sherds and pots we were working on reconstructing in the 2022 season with our pottery refitting team. As you can see, there are so many sherds all on top of eachother so the 3D model of the pottery helps us to reconstruct exactly which ceramic jar fell on top of which other one. We have just made a so-called Harris-Matrix of these ceramics, indicating their vertical position. As you can see there is some work left to do to make sense of this puzzle....
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