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the material civilisation of the people of the Early Iron Age as reflected by their tombs(?), is entirely different from that of the Late Bronze Age. We may therefore assume that also from the racial [handwritten: ?] of view they must have at least to a great extent been different from their predecessors. It seems likely that the early Iron Age invaders, who took over Enkomi in force at the beginning of the XIIth c. after having abolished regime of the mycenaean chieftains, who ruled the country 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 Cypriote population imposing upon them their own way of life and taking over their dwellings and even their family tombs. Through intermarriage and daily 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 view 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 (Cypriote Per I or Late Cypriote III) not a single mycenaean vase of the type so numerous in the preceding late Bronze Age level (Cypriote Recent III or late Cypriote II), has been found. There is also complete absence 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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