Bronze Age Sites of the Cyclades

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.

Some of the major sites are shown on the map below.

 

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

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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Classical Thera
Akrotiri
Cycladic settlement buried under volcanic ash

Tinos

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