Results of the excavation seasons 2014–2019 at Pyla-Kokkinokremos, Cyprus: A short-lived settlement at the end of the Bronze Age

Since its discovery in the early 1950s, the Late Bronze Age settlement of Pyla-Kokkinokremos has occupied a prominent position in the debates surrounding the ‘collapse’ of Bronze Age Mediterranean societies c. 1200 BCE. Several elements contributed to the site’s particular status in the Late Cypriot IIC–IIIA settlement landscape: the short-lived character of the site – founded towards the end of the 13th c. BCE and abandoned during the first quarter of the 12th c. BCE, its exceptional ‘casemate’ architecture, and its multi-ethnic material culture – with references to Sardinia, Crete, Egypt, Anatolia, the Syro-Palestinian coast and Mycenaean Greece. In 2014, J. Bretschneider, J. Driessen and A. Kanta inaugurated a new excavation project at Pyla-Kokkinokremos following previous successful investigations by P. Dikaios, V. Karageorghis and A. Kanta. The lecture will focus on the results of the excavation campaigns since 2014