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CYPRUS IN THE NEOLITHIC AND CHALCOLITHIC PERIODS
It is commonplace that Cyprus forms a stepping-stone between Europe and Asia. and that history holds a mirror to the sequence of great powers, now Asiatic, now European, who have dominated the lands of the Near East and the waters of the east Mediterranean. Such dominance has not always been in the same hands at the same time ; a maritime power and a land power have more than once contended with each other to win control of an island whose strategic and mercantile importance has been quite out of proportion to its size.
