Shillourokambos

Shillourokambos is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) site near Parekklisia, 6 km east of Limassol in southern Cyprus [1]. It is located on a low plateau [1]. Excavations began in 1992 [1]. The settlement has four phases and was occupied from the end of the 9th millennium to the second half of the 8th millennium [1]. The architecture of phases A and B (8200–7500 BC, calibrated) is characterised by circular wattle and daub structures, with post holes cut into the bedrock [1]. Around 300 blades of Anatolian obsidian point to trade connections with the mainland [1]. The site is important because it attests to the presence of cattle in the aceramic Neolithic period [1].