Bronze Age Sites of the Cyclades

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Cycladic Islands

Amorgos

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Markiani
Fortified hilltop settlement dating from the FN/EC I Grotta-Pelos Culture to the EC II Kastri Group.
Minoa
FN Saliagos Culture community.

Andros

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Strophylas
FN fortified settlement.

Antiparos

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Saliagos
LN through EC I fishing and farming community, type site of Saliagos Culture.

Ios

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Skarkos
EC Keros-Syros small town.

Kea

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Ayia Irini
Multi-era Bronze Age settlement.
Kephala
Early FN community and adjacent cemetery.
Paoura ?
Later FN community and adjacent cemetery (largely unexcavated).

Keros

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Dhaskalio
EC II Keros-Syros islet settlement abandoned in EC III.
Kavos
EC II settlement.
Kavos North
EC II settlement.

Kythnos

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Skouries
EC II settlement.
Skouries
Copper slag heap from EBA metal workings.

Melos

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Demenegaki
Neolithic obsidian workings.
Kalgories ?
Small EC cemetery containing twelve cist graves.
Phylakopi
Home of EC III Phylakopi Culture.
Sta Nychia
Neolithic obsidian workings.

Mykonos

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Mavrispilia
Saliagos Culture FN community.
Phtelia
Saliagos Culture FN community.

Naxos

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Aplomata
Grotta-Pelos cemetery.
Grotta
Saliagos Culture FN community, later FN-EC I farmstead of Grotta-Pelos Culture.
Korphi t’Aroniou
Grotta-Pelos FN-EC II commmunity.
Mikri Vigla
MC settlement of Phylakopi I culture.
Panormos
Fortified settlement of the Kastri Group.
Spedos ?
EC I settlement and cemetery.
Unknown
I would love to know what this is.

Paros

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Koukounaries
Saliagos Culture FN community below later Bronze Age and Classical remains.

Siphnos

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Agios Andreas
LH III settlement fortified in LH IIIB and LH IIIC (3.5m thick walls), but abandoned shortly thereafter.
Agios Sistos
FN silver and lead mines.

Syros

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Chalandriani (West): cemetery
EC II burial site for Keros-Syros Culture.
Kastri
EC II-III primary site of the Kastri Group.

Thera

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Akrotiri
Cycladic settlement buried under volcanic ash.
Classical Thera
Impressive mountainside ruins of a linear settlment laid out along a single main street.

Tinos

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Unknown
I would love to know what this is!

 



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