Archaeology: Sites You Should Know: Shillourokambos

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Sites You Should Know: Shillourokambos Jan 18th 2012, 08:41 Shillourokambos is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) site on the island of Cyprus, at the east end of the Mediterranean Sea and not terribly far from the more-famous and visitable Greek, Roman and Byzantine ruins at Limassol. Location of Shillourokambos in Cyprus. CIA World Factbook 1982. Excavated between 1992 and 2004, and occupied between 9,000-10,500 years ago, Shillourokambos holds evidence of the early process of animal management and domestication, of animals as diverse as cats, cattle and wild pigs. Although Cyprus was never closer than 50 miles or so from the mainlands of what are now Turkey and Syria, the PPNB occupants shipped in most of their animals and plants they lived on, the obsidian they used to make stone tools and many of their ideas of architecture and religion from their Levantine PPNB relatives, all of which makes Shillourokambos indeed an important site for understanding the PPNB. Shillourokambos Guide to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic

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