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easternmost peninsula of Cyprus, that of the necropolis at Pa-
leoskoutella is to be first considered. Here some tombs from the
Middle Cypriote Bronze Age were found and examined. The
tombs had an unusual form and were characterized by a chamber
hewn into the rock above which a large tumulus was thrown up.
They contained samples of various kinds of painted pottery.
Nitovikla3U An interesting building was examined at the neigh-
bouring site of Nitovikla. A large rectangular fortress was con-
structed here about 1600 B. C., it was long in use and was twice
repaired during the following centuries. The fortress may in an
interesting way be connected with the great, in part warlike, con-
vulsions and migrations of peoples which could be traced at that
time in the Continent, and which also in some way influenced
Cyprus. It consisted of four buildings round a large rectangular
courtyard.
Nikolides.31 A similar, somewhat younger fortress was examined
by Gjerstad already in 1924. It appeared to have been built
according to a somewhat different plan. Connected with a large
kernel, probably in three stories, there were some minor court-
yards with their special defensive arrangements. The excavations
of both Nitovikla and Nikolides yielded valuable finds of pot-
tery.
Alambraf2 In 1924, E. Gjerstad excavated the remains of a house
from the last part of the Early Bronze Age. The house consisted
of two rooms with a well-preserved disposition and a large
enclosed courtyard. The rooms and the courtyard are rectangular
in form and thus are distinct from the Stone Age huts known
from Petra, Lapithos, Kythrea, and other places in Cyprus. The
excavations, which give a clear picture of life on a Cypriote farm,
are important also because of the stratigraphic results.
Kalopsida33 To obtain a stratigraphic confirmation of the
chronology proposed by himself for the Middle Cypriote Bronze
Age on the basis of combinations of groups of tombs, Gjerstad,
already in 1924, examined a house at Kalopsida on the Mes-
30 Swed. Cyp. Exp. I, p. 371.
31 Gjerstad, Studies, p. 37; Sjöqvist, Problems, p. 11.
32 Gjerstad, Studies, p. 19.
33 Gjerstad, Studies, p. 27.