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deposited gravel and sand layers of nearly 3 feet thickness in the east-west streets of the lower town ( 124-126, 133).
According to our research at Enkomi and formerly in sites of [handwritten: early] the late Bronze Age and the Hallstatt period in Europe, the climatic disturbance of Cyprus during the twel XIIth c. B.C. has to be connected with the rather sudden return of a cooler and wetter atlantik climat after the warm and dry continental climat which caracterized the Late Bronze Age. Through independant research of postglacial géology in central and northern Europe, this change has been dated to the middle of the XIIth c. B.C. and is therefore contemporay with the floods levels of Enkomi.
The dwellingsof the floor level II, have been partially destroyed by an event of sudden caracter and rebuilt or repaired immediately afterwards. Evidence is in favor of an earthquake which seemed to have domaged also other towns in eastern Cyprus such as Sinda and Curium ( 103, 105, 134, 148).
After this catastrophy which can be dated to approximately 1100 B.C., began the last period of existence of the town of Enkomi (ca. 1100-1050 B.C.), corresponding to floor level I, during which its metal industrie was still very actif and its general prosperity unimpaired. The pottery of granary ware and its local initiation is now predominant, whereas the submycenaean ware only survives in degenerate form.
Towards the end of the period, the approach of some threatening danger has caused the inhabitants to bury their valuables and the statues of thear gods to ovoid desecration. Several of these
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