Site details

Chaironea

PK	C5170
TITLE	Chaironea
WGS84	38.492998° N, 22.840343° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	38.492998, 22.840343
LON/LAT	22.840343, 38.492998

DMS

38° 29' 34.7928" N

22° 50' 25.2348" E

W3W	flounced, comfy, bookstores
UTM	34 S, 660496, 4262121
EGSA87	398720, 4260866

Elevation m	232
Elevation feet	761.2
Region	Boeotia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson [1981], 76    'Two Mycenaean chamber tombs and signs of probable others have been observed on the east slope ... '
2.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 76    'Sherds both on the acropolis and in the lower city to north and east of it include ... Early Helladic and Mycenaean, ... '
3.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 253    'Sherds both on the acropolis and in the lower city to the N and E of it ...'
4.    Wall.   Simpson [1981], 76    ' ..., and remains of a "Cyclopean" circuit wall are claimed on the acropolis ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 254, '..., EH, LH, and A.'
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 76, ' ... Early Helladic and Mycenaean, ... '

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 254, '..., EH, LH, and A.'
    b.    Simpson [1981]: 76, ' ... Early Helladic and Mycenaean, ... ', 'Two Mycenaean chamber tombs have been observed on the east slope ... '

3. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 253, 'N EH LH A C H'

NOTE

1. Site kindly contributed by Dr. Alex Knodell (Carleton College).

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'C 45 Chaironeia: The Acropolis', pg. 76. Online here.

2. 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., 'G 46 Chaironeia: The Acropolis', pg. 253. Online here.