Erimi

A deeply stratified site in southern Cyprus, which has produced evidence of a sequence of pottery styles covering most of the 4th millennium BC. It is the type site for the Chalcolithic I Erimi culture, characterized by red-on-white pottery. The houses were first cut into rock, but later were circular huts of wattle and daub on stone foundations. The site is best known for its single copper chisel, the earliest evidence on the island for the use of the metal from which it derives its name.

Deeply stratified site in southern Cyprus, which has produced evidence of a sequence of pottery styles covering most of the 4th millennium BC. To begin with houses were cut into the rock, but were later built freestanding. The site is best known for its single copper chisel, the earliest evidence on the island for the use of the metal from which it derives its name and for which it was famous in the ancient world.