Choirokoitia, also known as Khirokitia, is an archaeological site dating from the Neolithic age. The site was discovered in 1934 by Dr Porphyrios Dikaios, the director of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities.

Situated on the slope of a hill in the valley of the Maroni River, about 6 kilometres from the sea, the settlement of Choirokoitia was occupied from the 7th to the 4th millennium B.C. The village Choirokoitia was suddenly abandoned for reasons unknown at around 6000 BC, and it seems that the island remained uninhabited for about 1 500 years until the next recorded entity, the Sotira group.

The site is one of the most important and best preserved prehistoric sites of the eastern Mediterranean. Its importance lies in the evidence of an organised functional society in the form of a collective settlement, with surrounding fortifications for communal protection.
 

Choirokoitia has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1998.