Site details

Anemomylo

PK	C1144
TITLE	Anemomylo
WGS84	36.772925° N, 22.927136° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	36.772925, 22.927136
LON/LAT	22.927136, 36.772925

DMS

36° 46' 22.53" N

22° 55' 37.6896" E

W3W	wavelengths, gossiping, clenching
UTM	34 S, 671987, 4071415
EGSA87	404107, 4069931

Elevation m	92
Elevation feet	301.8
Region	Laconia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    hab.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 117    'The site is about 100 m. in diameter.'
2.    Lithics.   Simpson [1981], 107    'Within a radius of about 50 m. round the tower EH and LH sherds were found and much obsidian.'
3.    Lithics.   Laconia II, 138    ' ... and over forty fragments of obsidian.'
4.    Settlement.   Banou [1996], 64    'Aufgrund der Funde jedenfalls ist die Existenz einer kleinen Siedlung oder auch noch eines Gehöftes hier anzunehmen.'
5.    Sherds.   Banou [1996], 64    'Hier hat Hope Simpson ein paar frühelladische und späthelladische, im SHIII datierbare Scherben...'
6.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 107    'Within a radius of about 50 m. round the tower EH and LH sherds were found and much obsidian.'
7.    Sherds.   Laconia II, 138    'In the vicinity is a fair quantity of coarse pottery, of the same varieties as at Angelona, including E.H. and L.H. III, and over forty fragments of obsidian.'

SITE SIZE

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 117,  Size: 7854 sq. m.  'The site is about 100 m. in diameter.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Laconia II: 138, 'E.H.'
    b.    Banou [1996]: 64, '...frühelladische...'

2. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 107, 'EH II LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 116, 'EH II LH III(A-B)'

3. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Laconia II: 138, 'L.H. III'
    b.    Banou [1996]: 64, '...im SHIII datierbare Scherben...'

4. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 107, 'EH II LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 116, 'EH II LH III(A-B)'

5. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 107, 'EH II LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 116, 'EH II LH III(A-B)'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Banou [1996]: Banou, Emilia. Beitrag zum Studium Lakoniens in der mykenischen Zeit. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität zu Freiburg. 1996, '46. Sykea: Anemomylos', pg. 64.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'E 29 Sikea: Anemomylo', pg. 107. Online here.

3. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'C 33 Sikea: Anemomylo', pg. 116. Online here.

4. Laconia II: Waterhouse, Helen and R. Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Laconia: Part II’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 56, pp. 114-175, 1961, 'Anemomylo, near Sikea', pg. 138. Online here.