Bronze Age Sites on the Greek Mainland

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 key sites are shown on the map below, but the main list is below it.

 

Greek Regions

Aígina

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Kolonna
Major centre occupied from FN through LH II, then revived in LH IIIA after a 30-year hiatus

Achaea

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Aigeira
Classical acropolis atop LH IIIC remains, occupied back into EH
Teichos Dymaion
LH IIIB fortified citadel built on a site inhabited from the Final Neolithic

Aetolia

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Thermon
MH settlement occupied through LH IIIC and into classical times

The Argolid

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Asine
Mycenaean island acropolis with cyclopaean wall remains
The Berbati Acropolis
Hilltop citadel abandoned LH IIIC
Berbati Tholos
The Dendra Tholoi
Extensive cemetery of chamber tombs and tholoi, possibly of nearby Midea
Franchthi Cave
Extensively excavated LN habitation site
Halieis
Settlement occupied from FN into Classical times
Iria?
Site destroyed in LH IIB2-LH IIIC Early transition
The Kokla Tholos
Body-less tomb dated to LH IIB–IIIA (site covered in satellite view)
Lerna
Founded LN (site levels I, II), abandoned end LN, reoccupied EH IIA through EH III/MH I
Midea
Administrative centre destroyed by fire LH IIIB2
Mycenae“rich in gold”
Mycenae(The Kato Phournos Tomb)
Mycenae(The Tomb of the Genii)
Mycenae(The Cyclopean Tomb)
Mycenae(The Epano Phourno)
Mycenae(The Panayia Tomb)
Mycenae(The Panayia Houses)
Three LH IIIB domestic buildings
Mycenae(The Treasury of Atreus)
Mycenae (West, Shields, Oil Merchant and Sphinx Houses)
Four LH IIIB buildings
Mycenae(Tholoi)
The Prosymna Tholos
Tomb close to EH and LH settlements on Mastos Hill
Tiryns“of the mighty walls”
Cyclopean palace built above LN? circular construction
The Tiryns Tholos
Tomb associated with nearby palace of Tiryns
Vassa
Walled settlement occupied in EH, MH and LH, but EH II predominates.

Attica

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Asketario
EH I/IIA coastal settlement abandoned end EH IIA
Athens
Mycenaean remains below the Parthenon
Brauron
Classical remains over Bronze Age settlement abandoned LH IIIB2
Eleusis
EH to LH remains beneath classical city
Marathon Arnos
LH IIIA tholos (covered in satellite view)
Marathon Plasi
Coastal settlement inhabited throughout the Bronze Age, with MH “mansions”
Marathon Tsepi
FN to EH II cemetery
Marathon Vrana
Tumuli dating between MH I and LH IIIC
Menidi Tholos
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Thorikos
SGE tholos near to mining town occupied from the Neolithic to classical times

Boeotia

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Anthedon
Coastal settlement with nearby harbour, possibly Thebes’ port
Eleon
MH settlement in occupation through LH IIIC and beyond
Eutresis
Cyclopean-walled town abandoned in LH IIIC
Thebes
The Mycenaean settlement is emerging from under the streets of the modern city

Corinthia

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Aedonia
Cemetery of LH III chamber tombs and tholoi for the nearby settlement
The Hexamillion Wall
Classical fortification wall speculated to be built on a Mycenaean original
Korakou
Site occupied throughout the Bronze Age
Perachora Vouliagmeni
EH coastal settlement abandoned at the end of the period
Tsoungiza/Archia Nemea
Settlement occupied during FN to EH IIB, abandoned, then re-occupied MH through LH IIIB
Zygouries
EH II to LH III settlement
Vayia
EH II fortified settlement

Elis

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Kakovatos
LH III town and chamber tombs
Portes
Cemetery with interments spanning LN to Iron Age.

Euboea

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Lefkandi
EB coastal settlement that thrived through LH IIIC
Manika
Extensive settlement and cemetery of EB I-II

Kythera

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Kastri
Minoan ‘colony’ of the EH I/EM I occupied through LH II

Laconia

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Amyklos
EH II citadel
Ayios Stephanos (anc. Helos?)
Coastal town founded EH I, abandoned EH II,reoccupied MH I, abandoned LH IIIC
Ayios Vasileios
LH III palatial centre built above MH III settlement, in turn above EH I site
Epidauros Limera
LH I chamber tomb cemetery and town showing LH IIIC occupation
Geraki
FN/EH I hilltop town, fortified in EH II, occupied into MH II
The Menelaion
Hilltop settlement and megaron
Palaiopyrgi
LH settlement; home of Vapheio Tholos’ chieftain?
Pavlopetri
EH coastal town submerged c.1000BCE
Pellana
Mycenaean centre of Laconia?
The Vapheio Tholos
Site of LH IIA chieftain burial

Lefkas

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Steno
EH I necropolis

Locris

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Agios IoannisKopais fortification
LH IIIB fortifications guarding the drained Kopais farming land
Agia Marina PyrgosKopais fortification
LH IIIB fortifications guarding the drained Kopais farming land
AliartosKopais fortification
LH IIIB fortification with Cyclopean-style circuit walls
ChantsaKopais fortification?
LH IIIB fortifications guarding the drained Kopais farming land
Gla
LH IIB Fortress of Orchomenos and the primary storehouse for the produce of the drained Kopais
Gla Canal
LH IIIA2 Kopais drainage channel
Gla Canal
LH IIIA2 Kopais drainage channel (cont.)
Gla Canal
LH IIIA2 Kopais drainage channel (cont.)
Kalapodi
LH IIIA1, LH IIIB temples under classical Temple of Apollo
Kastro/TopoliaKopais fortification?
LH IIIB fortifications guarding the drained Kopais farming land
KynosAlso known as Pyrgos Livanaton
Coastal town occupied from EH I into the Iron Age
Larymna
Coastal settlement protected by extant LH IIIB cyclopean walls
Melidoni
Hilltop coastal town
Mitrou
Islet settlement stretching from the Neolithic through EH to the post-palatial era
Orchomenos‘Treasury of Minyas’
LH IIIB Tholos associated with the Mycenaean citadel beneath the current church and destroyed LH IIIC
PoligiraKopais fortification?
LH IIIB fortifications guarding the drained Kopais farming land
PyrgosKopais fortification
LH IIIB fortifications guarding the drained Kopais farming land
RigkouneikaKopais fortification
LH IIIB fortifications guarding the drained Kopais farming land
Skroponeri?
Islet settlement
StrovikiKopais fortification
LH IIIB fortifications guarding the drained Kopais farming land

Messenia

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Akovitika
EH II settlement comprising two corridor houses. Destroyed end EH IIB
Iklaina
Major LBA centre
Leuktron
LH town controlling southern Messenia (‘Further Province’) until annexed by Pylos
Malthis
Tholos tomb.
Nichoria
Settlement spanning MBA and LBA with nearby tholos
Peristeria
Three SGE tholoi and remains of a MH walled palace, houses and enclosures
Pylos “the sandy”
PylosThe Tholoi
LH IIA tombs adjacent to the acropolis
Tragana Tholoi
Tombs overlooking Pylos’ port at mod. Romanou
The Tomb of Thrasymedes
SGE tholos built above MH burial mound; EH settlement traces nearby

Methana

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Ayios Konstantinos
Settlement stretching from Neolithic to LH IIIB

Phocis

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Delphi
Thisbe“of the many pigeons”

Thessaly

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Dimini(Iolkos?)
Neolithic site with Mycenaean tholos, palace and town

 


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