Site details

Lestiani

PK	C6902
TITLE	Lestiani
WGS84	39.453675° N, 22.97039° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	39.453675, 22.97039
LON/LAT	22.97039, 39.453675

DMS

39° 27' 13.23" N

22° 58' 13.404" E

W3W	diarists, tortoises, symphony
UTM	34 S, 669531.1, 4368976.15
EGSA87	411266, 4367342

Elevation m	460
Elevation feet	1509.2
Region	Magnesia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015],     'Type: Necropolis'
2.    Sherds.   Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015],     'Only some G sherds were found in the dromos of the largest tholos tomb.'
3.    Tholos.   Georganas [2000], 47    'Thessaly is one of the very few regions in Greece where tholos tombs were built and used throughout the Protogeometric (PG) and the Geometric (G) periods.'
4.    Tholos.   Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015],     'A cluster of 3 G tholos tombs were found at the site of Lestiani on the NW part of Mt Pelion.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Georganas [2000]: 47, ' ... built and used throughout the Protogeometric (PG) and the Geometric (G) periods.'
    b.    Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015]: , 'Chronological Period: From EPG to LG'

2. Early Protogeometric: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015]: , 'Chronological Period: From EPG to LG'

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Georganas [2000]: 47, ' ... built and used throughout the Protogeometric (PG) and the Geometric (G) periods.'
    b.    Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015]: , 'Chronological Period: From EPG to LG'

4. Early Geometric: (900 BC - 850 BC)
    a.    Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015]: , 'Chronological Period: From EPG to LG'

5. Middle Geometric: (850 BC - 760 BC)
    a.    Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015]: , 'Chronological Period: From EPG to LG'

6. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015]: , 'Chronological Period: From EPG to LG'

NOTES

1. Lestiani is a tiny, nearly abandoned, community on the W slopes of Mt. Pelion. Georganas mentions three tholos tombs in the vicinity. For more see

PAE 1911, 292-4.

P. Arachoviti, 'Thalatos protogeometrikos taphos sten perioche ton Pheron' in La Thessalie; quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: bilans et perspectives. Actes du colloque international, Lyon avril 1990 (1994) 125-138 and 135, fig. 2.

Ioannis Georganas, 'Dying in Early Iron Age Thessaly', Acts of the 2nd Archaeological Meeting of Thessaly and Central Greece: From Prehistory to the Contemporary Period, University of Thessaly, 16-19 March 2006. Volos. p. 198 which is online here.
Constantinos J. Gallis, 'A short Chronicle of the Greek Archaeological Investigations in Thessaly, from 1881 until to the present day', In: La Thessalie. Actes de la Table-Ronde, 21-24 juillet 1975, Lyon. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 1979. pp. 1-30. (Collection de la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen. Série archéologique, 6) on p. 8 and which is particularly enlightening on the subject of the work of the Ephor Apostolos Arvanitopoulos. Gallis' paper is online here.
Eleni Panagiotopoulou, 'Reconstructing diet, tracing mobility', Lestiani is mentioned on p. 8. The paper is online here.

2. Mazarakis-Ainian tells us that these tombs were found plundered.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Georganas [2000]: Georganas, Ioannis. ‘Early Iron Age Tholos Tombs in Thessaly (c.1100 - 700 BC)’, Mediterranean Archaeology (13), 47-54., 'Introduction', pg. 47. Online here.

2. Mazarakis-Ainian ed. [2015]: Mazarakis Ainian, Alexander . Η Κοινωνική Αρχαιολογία του Ελληνικού Κόσμου κατά την Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου και την Πρώιμη Αρχαϊκή περίοδο (The Aristeia Project: The Social Archeology of the Greek World during the Early Iron Age and the Early Archaic period), 'Lestiani', Online here.