Tham khảo tài liệu 'prehistoric & protohistoric cyprus phần 7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 292 The Earliest Iron Age periods Sherratt 1992 326 Reyes 1994 11-13 . As lacovou 2005 127 emphasizes history tells us that this fundamental change did take place but it does not tell us how it happened nor has archaeology been able to provide the expected evidence. As already emphasized above Chapter 2 migrations are a central fact of social life and the memory of migrations provides people with ideas and stories about origins and consequently about their identity or identities . Folk memories of migratory movements moreover may accentuate certain aspects of identity language or clothing or cuisine for example . Through social processes such as hybridization the identities of migrants and indigenous peoples typically become transformed and one of the most crucial factors in such contact situations is to share a common language. Thus as Iacovou 2005 132 astutely observes It is not ethnicity therefore that produces a shared language it is a shared language that may gradually create or contribute towards an ethnic bond . At some point during the 11th century BC certain Aegean peoples migrants rather than purposive colonists became established on Cyprus an event that remained deeply rooted in the memory of Greeks whether in Greece or on Cyprus. We cannot define this event any more precisely not least because the social processes involved in it social exchange migration hybridization had been going on for at least 200 years. Indeed the entire ProBA 3 period may be characterized as a time of widespread human mobility in the eastern Mediterranean and the arrival of any intrusive groups on Cyprus ultimately will have had an impact on the inhabitants social organization as well their identities. Sherratt 1992 330 points out that the 11th century BC was a time of political and social upheaval during which new political configurations may have begun to emerge in all probability ones which foreshadowed however abortively the eventual rise of the early historical kingdoms on .
