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the material civilisation of the people of the Early Iron Age as reflected by their tombgifts, is Enterely different from that of the late Bronze Age. We may therefore assume that also from the racial [handwritten: pout] of view they must have at least to a great extent been different from their predecessors. It seems likely that the early Iron Age anvadors, who took ever Enkomi in force at the beginning of the XIIth c. after having abolished regime of the mycenaean chieftains, who ruled the conntry during the preceding period, as we know from other discoveries made during our excavations in 1950 ([handwritten: see] below), went to settle among the native Cy priote population imposing upon them their own way of life and taking one [handwritten: over] their dwellings and even their family tombs. Through intermarriage and dayly contact with the indigenes, the process of substitution of one population by the other which in this case was notably inferior in culture may have been accomplished without undue hostility or friction ( 73, 74).
It is probable also, that from the point of vue of chronology the two periods succeeded each other with only a short interval which according to our impression may have lasted a generation, or even less.
In the early Iron Age level of tomb 5 (Chypriote Fer I or Late Cypriote III) not a single mycenaean vase of the type so numerous in the preceding Late Bronze Age level (Chypriote Récent III or Late Cypriote II), has been found. There is also complete absen ce of the close style pottery which we have now discovered elsewhere at Enkomi in a level of short duration at the very end of the latest Bronze Age (see below) . Neither is there any trace of the
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