sponsorship: This study was conducted within the framework of the PlaCe-ITN project, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 956410. We express our heartfelt gratitude to Prof. Thilo Rehren, the PlaCe-ITN coordinator, for his unwavering support in the implementation of this project, particularly for his invaluable advice in the comparative study of hhXRF and ICP-OES data. We are deeply grateful to the Director and staff of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, for granting permission to study, sample, and export ceramic materials for analysis and publication. We also acknowledge with heartfelt gratitude the support of Dr Lindy Crewe, especially during the early stages of this study, her assistance in selecting samples for analysis and for granting access to her doctoral thesis records. Special thanks are extended to the Director of the Geological Survey Department, Cyprus, Mr Christodoulos Hadjigeorgiou, and Dr Zomenia Zomeni for providing access to GIS data for the area around Enkomi and for insightful dis-cussions on the geology of eastern Cyprus. We sincerely thank Dr Artemis Georgiou, Dr Anna Georgiadou, Dr Jelena Zivkovic, and Dr Despina Pilides for their engaging discussions on Late Bronze Age pot-tery and the diachronic production of ceramics along Cyprus's eastern coast. Finally, we wish to thank the technical and research support staff, especially Dr Brunella Santarelli, Giulia Fogarizzu and Rafael Evzonas, at the Archaeological Science Laboratory of STARC, The Cyprus Insti-tute, where the majority of the analyses were conducted, as well as Christiana Kelepeshi in KU Leuven, where the ICP MS/OES analyses were conducted, and the staff at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute for their invaluable assistance. We also acknowledge the valuable feedback provided by the two anonymous reviewers, which significantly improved this manuscript. Any remaining errors are solely our responsibility. (European Union|956410, Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)|956410)