There is a clear pattern of pottery distribution in the Chalcolithic period (c. 3900-2600 BC) and the Late Chalcolithic/Philia phase (c. 2700-2500 BC) of the Prehistoric Bronze Age. This pottery shows a very clear concentration at Koutroullis, just south-east of Kato Phlasou, and virtually nothing else in the Karkotis Valley. Recent erosion is not a significant problem in the Karkotis Valley. We have certainly lost some prehistoric surfaces due to later incision and deposition by the Karkotis River, but this certainly does not apply to the older, higher terraces of the valley.
There is a striking contrast with the Prehistoric Bronze Age pottery (which might include some Late Chalcolithic/Philia pottery that could not be precisely identified, but will mostly be the later phases). There is a continuing concentration at Koutroullis, but with more of a halo round it, and a rather denser and wider spread at Laonarka to the north. There are scattered sherds across the valley outside these two main concentrations. These are partly a result of greater quantities of pottery being produced, broken and discarded, and partly due to more wide-ranging and intensive cultivation and other activity outside the immediate surroundings of these two localities.
Koutroullis (TS06) is a substantial Prehistoric Bronze Age 1 settlement, with considerable amounts of pottery that dates (according to the traditional chronology) from the Late Chalcolithic, Philia and Early Cypriot phases. It also has one of the most comprehensive assembages of prehistoric chipped and ground stone investigated by TAESP. The site is located on a basalt spur at the end of a ridge running westwards from the valley edge, with an excellent view (.mov panorama) both up and down the valley. In the Prehistoric Bronze Age it may have been directly adjacent to a river meander.
TS06 Phlasou Koutroullis
Katydhata Laonarka (TS09) represents the remains of at least one part of a Prehistoric Bronze Age 2 habitational and mortuary complex (Boutin et al. 2003).
TS09 Katydhata Laonarka
There was continuing activity round Laonarka in the Protohistoric Bronze Age, although by this period Koutroullis was clearly no longer settled. Apart from some sherd scatters, which appeared to be the remains of tomb assemblages, there was little to connect this material with any particular features, though its distribution extends distinctly further west than that of the Prehistoric Bronze Age material.