Site details

Lygaria: Settlement

PK	C6722
TITLE	Lygaria: Settlement
WGS84	38.944699° N, 22.335266° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	38.944699, 22.335266
LON/LAT	22.335266, 38.944699

DMS

38° 56' 40.9164" N

22° 20' 6.9576" E

W3W	leathers, outpaces, herb
UTM	34 S, 615715.2, 4311487.42
EGSA87	355582, 4311670

Elevation m	161
Elevation feet	528.2
Region	Macedonia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Karantzali [2013], 146    ' ..., the architectural remains of three apsidal MH III/LH I houses, and some vestiges of a LH III inhabitation.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Karantzali [2013]: 151, ' ... the majority of local pottery continued almost unchanged from LH IIIA2 until ... '

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Karantzali [2013]: 151, ' ... the majority of local pottery continued almost unchanged from LH IIIA2 until the end of LH IIIB'

3. LH IIIB2: (1250 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Karantzali [2013]: 151, 'It seems to have been abandoned after its destruction, in the time when special pottery characteristics of the transitional phase LH IIIB2/IIIC Early were introduced ... '

4. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Karantzali [2013]: 151, 'It seems to have been abandoned after its destruction, in the time when special pottery characteristics of the transitional phase LH IIIB2/IIIC Early were introduced ... '

NOTE

1. Karantzali [2013] 146 says "The new LH III inhabitations at Lygaria were discovered 1.5km W of the modern village, during public works for the construction of the new railway line ... " At the place indicated the archaeological excavation can be seen on the Google Earth map for August 4, 2010.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Graziadio et al. [2013]: Graziado, Giampaolo and Riccardo Guglielmino, Valeria Lenuzza, Salvatore Vitale. Philike Sunaulia; Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology for Mario Benzi. BAR International Series 2460. 2013., '',

2. Karantzali [2013]: Karantzali, Efi. ‘Mycenaeans within the Spercheios Valley: The inhabitations at Frantzis and Lygaria’, In Graziadio et al., eds. [2013] pp. 139-153. BAR International Series 2460. 2013., 'The Inhabitation of Lygaria', pg. 146. Online here.