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History of Cyprus

The name

The metal copper is named after Cyprus. The Romans called it aes Cyprium, the 'metal of Cyprus', which was shortened to cyprium and then corrupted to cuprum. The ancient Greek word for copper is chalkos.

Prehistory

Main article: Cyprus (Prehistory)

• ca. 8500 BC: Possible first human settlement by epipalaeolithic hunters and gatherers at Aetokremnos possibly arriving from Rumelia

• 7000-5300 BC: Neolithic

• ca. 7000: Settlement of the island by Neolithic farmers from the Levant (PPN B) who introduced domesticated wheat, cattle, sheep, goats, dogs and fallow deer, wild foxes and tamed cats.
• 6th Millennium: aceramic Khirokitia-culture with round houses
• 4500-4000: first pottery produced during the Sotira-Phase
  

• 4000-2500 Chalcolithic

• Erimi-Phase (Chalcolithic I), copper known, but used sparingly
• Ambelikou/Ayios Georghios (Chalcolithic II)
  

• 2700-1050 Bronze Age

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