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… which apparently mark the boundaries between the burial areas of the different families and thus protect against unauthorized intrusion, a measure which naturally would be unnecessary, if the necropolis area were not heavily occupied —
During the Roman and Byzantine periods the site was under cultivation, the settlements belonging to it lying to the west at respectively Sykia tou Bekhir and Agia Marina, as is shown by the abundant occurrence of pottery from these periods in the cultivation layers. Owing to the topographical features of the area - its position on a steep slope at the foot of the Kerynia range - agriculture has been made possible only by means of terracing, in which the material of the Neolithic settlement was primarily used in the construction. The gradual accumulation of earth and the digging down that … continues
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