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Choirokoitia — Panagia tou Kampou, Choirokoitia

MegalithFringe site

Choirokoitia

Cyprus

DatedEst. 4000 BCE–600 CE

Where it standsSources

Photo Chris06 · CC BY-SA 4.0Source file on Wikimedia Commons

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About this site

Overview

Choirokoitia is an other / unclassified in Larnaca District, Cyprus. It lies at 34.7975° N, 33.3352° E, at an elevation of 210 m. Choirokoitia is a village in Cyprus’s Larnaca District. It stands 2 km north of Tochni and lies near the Choirokoitia UNESCO World Heritage Site. The source provides no further information about the village itself, including its buildings, population, history, archaeological remains, or physical form. It does not describe the nearby World Heritage Site in detail, although it identifies the site by name and distinguishes the village’s location from it. No alternative, legendary, or fringe account appears in the source text.

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Where it sits in time

The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.

The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.

  1. Göbekli Tepe9600 BCE
  2. First farming9500 BCE
  3. Avebury2600 BCE
  4. Great Pyramid of Giza2560 BCE
  5. Stonehenge2500 BCE
  6. Bronze Age collapse1200 BCE
  7. Rome founded753 BCE
  8. Parthenon447 BCE
  9. Hadrian's Wall122 CE
  10. Machu Picchu built1450 CE
12,000 BCE8,000 BCE4,000 BCE1 CE1,500 CE
This site

Est. 4000 BCE–600 CEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical for this type

The published range for this kind of monument in this region. It is not a date for this site.
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Article

Choirokoitia

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Context

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The Atlas uses the heading "other" for stone monuments that fit none of its other types, and the same article serves for underground chambers that have no regional article. The records are varied. Many are ziggurats, Egyptian temples and pyramids, and Maya and Andean sites, which are treated in their own articles. What remains is a scatter of single sites in many countries whose descriptions do not allow a closer classification. The regional background, “Other prehistoric stone monuments”, is given below.

Dating

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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Cyprus are generally dated 4000 BCE to 600 CE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.

Typological estimate, not a date for this site: a other in Greece and the Aegean is normally dated between 4000 BCE and 600 CE (Atlas typological table).