Bronze Age Sites of the Aegean Islands

Site co-ordinates are provided in decimal latitude and longitude values. Click on a data source under the Satellite View column to see the site from above, or click the button in the Coordinates column to paste a location’s co-ordinates to your device’s clipboard. Sites with accompanying websites are now being added to the Web column.

The co-ordinates of sites listed with a ? are uncertain: either the reference is inexact or tentative, or the location’s attribution is unsafe. Please feel free to suggest updates and provide corrections.

 

Aegean Islands

Chios

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Emporio
LBA West Anatolian settlement, later abandoned. LH IIIC Early site built over it the destroyed LH IIIC Late.

Lemnos

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Poliochni
N village that grew massively in the EB, probably before Troy I, but peaked c.2500 and then declined. Completely abandoned c.2000 after an earthquake

Skyros

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Palamari
Fortified EB II settlement and harbour, in use through MB

 


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