Resumen de Agro-pastoralist colonization of Cyprus in the 10th millennium BP: initial assessments

Edgar Peltenburg, Sue Colledge, Paul Croft, Adam Jackson, Carole McCartney, Mary Ann Murray

• Unexpectedly early evidence for the precocious spread of farming has recently emerged in Cyprus. It is argued that the transmission occurred as a result of migration related to ecosystem stress in the Levant. So strong are the connections of the colonists with the mainland that we suggest the term Cypro-Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to describe what has hitherto been a major lacuna in Cypriot prehistory. Consistent dates from key sites and the evolution of material culture indicate that this Cypro-PPNB sequence represents the hitherto elusive ancestry for the Khirokitian.