Get Real! wrote:Simon wrote:Get Real! wrote:Simon wrote:The Sotira people probably emigrated to Cyprus, like everyone else. That would be the most logical explanation, in the absence of any other evidence. There is no evidence suggesting that these two people were related or that there was a continuance. So you can't state something as fact with no evidence.
You seem so eager to always introduce foreigners to replace the native Cypriots without the slightest shred of evidence of that ever happening, just because a perfect continuity hasn’t been unearthed yet!
Is this about Cyprus or about you Simon?
GR, I am eager to introduce common sense into your psyche.
If the evidence is telling us that the Sotira people suddenly appeared from nowhere, then common sense dictates that they emigrated to Cyprus from abroad. You are trying to say they descend from the Choirokoitians, when the evidence shows that Choirokoitia ceased to exist 1500 years earlier, with no other evidence of human existence in Cyprus!
When you have the slightest shred of evidence that the Choirokoitians and Sotirans were connected, let me know!
No, we simply haven't figured things out yet Simon so QUIT MANUFACTURING the missing bits yourself! Just give it up!
Greek nationalists are always hell-bent on removing Cypriots from Cyprus and replacing them with Greeks! Such is their love for all things Cypriot!
But then again… if they do not accomplish that their
“Hellenization of Cyprus” mythology falls flat on its face!
No GR, you haven't figured things out yet. You think we haven't figured things out because it disagrees with your version of history.
The links I have provided show that the
Choirokoitians ceased to exist well before the Sotira people arrived! If you don't believe this GR, take it up with the Cyprus Government and the archeologists, not "Greek nationalists".
The Sotira civilisation appeared 1500 years later when there were apparently no people living in Cyprus. We can only go by the evidence we have today GR,
we can't invent facts based on the evidence you hope to find in the future. I don't think you've quite grasped this yet GR.
I am not manufactering anything myself. I am going by the evidence:
"The aceramic civilisation of Cyprus came to an end quite abruptly around 6000 BC. It was probably followed by a vacuum of almost 1.500 years until around 4500 BC when one sees the emergence of Neolithic II (Ceramic Neolithic).
At this time newcomers arrived in Cyprus introducing a new Neolithic era. The main settlement that embodies most of the characteristics of the period is Sotira near the south coast of Cyprus."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistori ... _Neolithic
This is supporting exactly what I said, "newcomers arrived in Cyprus".
Wikipedia uses the following as References:
Veronica Tatton-Brown, Cyprus BC, 7000 Years of History (London, British Museum 1979).
Stuart Swiny (2001) Earliest Prehistory of Cyprus, American School of Oriental Research ISBN 0-89757-051-0
J. M. Webb and D. Frankel, Characterising the Philia facies. Material culture, chronology and the origins of the Bronze Age in Cyprus. American Journal of Archaeology 103, 1999, 3-43.
S. Gitin, A. Mazar, E. Stern (eds.), Mediterranean peoples in transition, thirteenth to early 10th century BC (Jerusalem, Israel exploration Society 1998). Late Bronze Age and transition to the Iron Age.
J. D. Muhly, The role of the Sea People in Cyprus during the LCIII period. In: V. Karageorghis/J. D. Muhly (eds), Cyprus at the close of the Bronze Age (Nicosia 1984), 39-55. End of Bronze Age
External links:
http://www.ancientcyprus.ac.uk/sites/py ... oraki.html
Archaeology and history of Cyprus
Deneia Bronze Age pottery [2]
Ancient History of Cyprus, by Cypriot government.
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