Feasting and Depositional Practice in Late Bronze Age Cyprus, Zypern

The project “Feasting and Depositional Practice in Late Bronze Age Cyprus” was initiated in 2009. Since then, various experts of different fields inside Cypriote archaeology cooperated on the material of two wells found in Palaepaphos in south-western Cyprus. Those wells, exca-vated by the team of Franz Georg Maier between 1967 and 1968, are located on the Evreti-Plateau near the Late-Bronze Age sanctuary and situated between different burials dating to LC I-IIIa. Because of their slow sedimentation and often accidentally buried finds, wells are often great contexts to research the daily life of the people settling in the area around them. However, the case of Palaepaphos seems different. The sedimentation as well as the finds indicate a filling of the well within a single event and gave evidence craft and feasting practices in this area.