I found this spot accidentally it was a huge surprise for me because I had never
imagine the existence of this unique heritage and was hidden so perfect from the public, why???
I admire the hospitality of the workers without them, perhaps I couldn’t never understood how lucky I was
Khirokitia Culture (7000-5800 B.C), or the Recent Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus, results from a long process which began in the 9th milennium, if not before.
Excavations on the site, which is included in the World Heritage List of UNESCO, began in 1936 under the direction of Porphyrios Dikaios, then Curator of the Department of Antiquities, and since 1976 have been continued by a French Archaelogical Mission under the direction of A. Le Brun.
The settlement stretches over the steep slopes of a hill and is enclosed within a wall which has been uncoverered in the East and North (Wall 100). With the partial abandonment of the northern slope and extension to the West, the settlement takes a new configuration defined by a new enclosure wall (Wall 284).
The constructions are circular with flat roofs in the form of a terrace. A house constitutes the grouping of several of these circular constructions around a small inner “courtyard” with an installation for grinding grain.
Flint or bone tools and receptacles made of stone or basketwork were used in daily life.
The deceased were buried in pits cut into a floors of habitation units. Some of them were accompanied by stone vessels and necklaces.
The nutrition needs of the inhabitants of Khirokitia were met by animal husbandry, hunting, cultivation of plants and gathering of wild fruits.
The site was abandoned around 5800 B.C. It was reoccupied from 5000 B.C by people of the Sotira Culture who knew and had mastere the art of pottery.
