Abandonment sequences at Middle Bronze Age Erimi have been examined using integrated stratigraphic analysis and high-resolution microarchaeological techniques, with the aim of investigating the environmental processes and socio-cultural practices that impacted on the abandonment of buildings and settlement areas. The data revealed the occurrence of two distinct processes: gradual structural degradation and rapid destruction by a fire event. Destruction sequences within burnt buildings were examined to identify the temperatures to which sediments had been exposed and to reconstruct the conflagration event. Resulting data are discussed in the context of Middle Bronze Age Cyprus, in a preliminary consideration of the ideological implications of the identified abandonment practices.

使用综合地层分析和高分辨率显微考古技术检查了青铜时代中期 Erimi 的废弃序列，目的是调查影响建筑物和定居区废弃的环境过程和社会文化实践。数据揭示了两个不同过程的发生：逐渐的结构退化和火灾事件的快速破坏。检查了被烧毁建筑物内的破坏顺序，以确定沉积物所暴露的温度并重建火灾事件。在对已确定的遗弃做法的意识形态影响进行初步考虑时，在青铜器时代中期塞浦路斯的背景下讨论了由此产生的数据。