Site details

Therasia: Alaphouzos Quarry

PK	C1206
TITLE	Therasia: Alaphouzos Quarry
WGS84	36.419942° N, 25.336428° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	36.419942, 25.336428
LON/LAT	25.336428, 36.419942

DMS

36° 25' 11.7912" N

25° 20' 11.1408" E

W3W	moreover, loping, pleasurably
UTM	35 S, 350859, 4031813
EGSA87	619662, 4031069

Elevation m	85
Elevation feet	278.9
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Thera

GENERAL SITE TYPE Hab

TYPE

1.    Hab.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 345    'LB I houses were found on the S coast ... '
2.    Hab.   Simpson [1981], 191    'LB I house remains were found on the south coast ...'
3.    Hab.   Hiller von Gaertringen [1904], 39    'Es sind das zuerst die Häuser an der Südküste der jetzigen Insel Therasia, etwa in der Mitte zwischen Kap Trypití und der Klippe Kimina, die bald nach der Eruption von 1866 durch die Griechen Alaphuzos und Nomikos und den französischen Geologen Fouqué untersucht sind.'
4.    Hab.   Scholes [1956], 13    'The prehistoric site on the south coast of this small island was investigated by Alafousos and Nomikos, and later by Fouqué in 1867. Remains of two houses came to light which had been engulfed in volcanic ash by an eruption at some period anterior to that which created the central bay of Thera and cut off Therasia on the eastern side.'
5.    Hab.   Barber [1981], 20    'A country farmstead with ... '
6.    Settlement.   Schallin [1993], 25    ' ..., an early LBA settlement, possibly a farmstead, was excavated by Nomikos and Alaphouzos in 1866.'
7.    Settlement.   Davis and Cherry [1990], 190    'At least six free-standing buildings stood in an area stretching for some 125 m.'
8.    Sherds.   Scholes [1956], 26

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Cycladic: (1700 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Scholes [1956]: 26,

2. Late Cycladic I: (1700 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Barber [1981]: 20, ' ... with LC I material.'
    b.    Schallin [1993]: 25, ' ..., an early LBA settlement, ... '
    c.    Davis and Cherry [1990]: 190, 'In general, the pottery was of styles typical of Akrotiri and neighbouring sites (i.e. LC I).'

3. Late Cycladic II: (1625 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Schallin [1993]: 25, ' ..., an early LBA settlement, ... '

4. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Scholes [1956]: 13, 'The circumstances of their destruction have preserved details of house-construction in the later Bronze Age in a manner unique in the Cyclades.'
    b.    Schallin [1993]: 25, ' ..., an early LBA settlement, ... '

5. Late Bronze I: (1570 BC - 1400 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 191, 'LB I'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 345, 'LB I houses ... '

NOTES

1.  According to Schallin [1993] 25 'The exact location of the site is no longer known.'

2.  Barber [1981] 20 says 'The precise location is uncertain.'

3.  Schallin [1993] 8, table 1, defines 'early LBA' as encompassing LCI and II.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Barber [1981]: Barber, R.L.N.. ‘The Late Cycladic Period: A Review’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (76), pp. 1-21, 1981., '48. Therasia', pg. 20. Online here.

2. Davis and Cherry [1990]: Davis, J.L. and J.F. Cherry. ‘Spatial and Temporal Uniformitarianism in Late Cycladic I: Perspectives from Kea and Milos on the Prehistory of Akrotiri’, In Hardy et al. (eds.) [1990] 185-200, 'Alaphouzos Quarry', pg. 190. Online here.

3. Hardy et al. (eds.) [1990]: Hardy, D.A. et al. (eds.). Thera and the Aegean World III. Volume one. Archaeology. . Proceedings of the third international congress Santorini, Greece 3-9 September 1989., '',

4. Hiller von Gaertringen [1904]: Hiller von Gaertringen, Friedrich (ed.). Thera; Untersuchungen, Vermessungen und Ausgrabungen in den Jahren 1895-1902, Band 3. Berlin, verlag von Georg Reimer, 1904., 'Erstes Kapitel: Die Anfänge bis zur grossen Bimssanderuption', pg. 37. Online here.

5. Schallin [1993]: Schallin, Ann-Louise. Islands under Influence: The Cyclades in the Late Bronze Age and the Nature of Mycenaean Presence.. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, no. 111. Jonsered 1993, '62. Alaphouzos quarry', pg. 25.

6. Scholes [1956]: Scholes, Kathryn. ‘The Cyclades in the Later Bronze Age: A Synopsis’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 51 (1956), pp. 9-40, 'Thera (Santorini): Therasia', pg. 13. Online here.

7. Scholes [1956]: Scholes, Kathryn. ‘The Cyclades in the Later Bronze Age: A Synopsis’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 51 (1956), pp. 9-40, 'Thera (Santorini): Therasia', pg. 26. Online here.

8. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Therasia', pg. 191. Online here.

9. 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., 'Therasia', pg. 345. Online here.