Site details

Paros: Avyssos (Akrotiri)

PK	C6953
TITLE	Paros: Avyssos (Akrotiri)
WGS84	36.991561° N, 25.141311° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	36.991561, 25.141311
LON/LAT	25.141311, 36.991561

DMS

36° 59' 29.6196" N

25° 8' 28.7196" E

W3W	roped, warps, revealing
UTM	35 S, 334594.81, 4095550.82
EGSA87	601414, 4094257

Elevation m	5
Elevation feet	16.4
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Paros

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Karantzali [1996], 30    Karantzali mentions pyxides, a bowl, some stone pearls.
2.    Artifacts.   Richardson [1999:2], 296    'Production debris: 5 pieces of copper slag (Tsountas 1898: 176).'
3.    Cem.   Karantzali [1996], 30    'Les vestiges des maisons et les tombes datent de la période de transition du CA I/II.'
4.    Cem.   Renfrew [2011], 11311    'Settlement and cemetery excavated by Tsountas ... '
5.    Settlement.   Karantzali [1996], 30    'Tsountas a pu identifier des traces de murs qui appartiennent au site d'habitat de cette région:', 'Les vestiges des maisons ... '
6.    Settlement.   Renfrew [2011], 11311    'Settlement and cemetery excavated by Tsountas ... '
7.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 319    'Settlement-remains and 2 graves are ... '
8.    Settlement.   Mackenzie [1896], 87    ' ..., I came upon what must have been an extensive, but now partially obliterated, settlement near cultivated land, but, ..., I failed to find any evidence of burial near.'
9.    Settlement.   Hogarth et al. [1897], 22    'The discovery of a similarly unfortified settlement at Akrotiri in S.W. Paros, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Prehistoric: (4000 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Mackenzie [1896]: , 'The chief interest of the site is its very primitive, purely pre-Mycenaean character.'

2. Early Cycladic I: (3200 BC - 2700 BC)
    a.    Richardson [1999:2]: 296, 'EC I-II'
    b.    Karantzali [1996]: 30, ' ...: CA I/II ... '

3. Grotta-Pelos: (3000 BC - 2600 BC)
    a.    Renfrew [2011]: 11311, 'The cemetery yielded finds of the Grotta-Pelos culture ... '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 319, ' ... are attributted to GP or a traditional GP-KS phase; ... '

4. Early Cycladic II: (2700 BC - 2450 BC)
    a.    Richardson [1999:2]: 296, 'EC I-II'
    b.    Karantzali [1996]: 30, ' ...: CA I/II ... '

5. Keros-Syros: (2600 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 319, ' ... or a traditional GP-KS phase; ... '

NOTES

1.  The toponym 'Akrotiri' in Hogarth and Mackenzie is almost certainly Avyssos.

2.  For metal-working at this site see Richardson [1999:2] 326.

3.  Bent [1885] 390 visited this place (which he calls 'Abussos', 'Ἄβυσσος') although he was skeptical because the weather was poor and he was unable to see the sunken houses and walls.

4.  Page numbers in Renfrew [2011] are, in actuality, location numbers in the electronic edition, ISBN 978-1-78570-773-5.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Bent [1885]: Bent, J. Theodore. The Cyclades or Life Among the Insular Greeks. Longmans, Green, and Co., London. 1885, '', pg. 390. Online here.

2. Hogarth et al. [1897]: Hogarth, D.G. and D. Mackenzie, C.C. Edgar. ‘Excavations in Melos, 1898’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (4) 1-48. 1898, '', pg. 22. Online here.

3. Karantzali [1996]: Karantzali, Efi. Le Bronze Ancien dans les Cyclades et en Crete; Les relations entre les deux regions; Influence de la Grece Continentale. BAR International Series 631, 'Avyssos', pg. 30. Online here.

4. Mackenzie [1896]: Mackenzie, Duncan. ‘Ancient Sites in Melos’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (3) 71-88. 1896, '', pg. 87. Online here.

5. Renfrew [2011]: Renfrew, Colin. The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millenium BC. Oxbow Books. Second ed., 2011 (First edition 1972), '6. Avyssos', pg. 11311. Online here.

6. Richardson [1999:2]: Richardson, Rebecca Helen. Craft specialisation, workshops and activity areas in the Aegean from the Neolithic to the end of the protopalatial period, Vol. 2.. Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Durham University, Durham, England. 1999., 'E26. Avyssos', pg. 296. Online here.

7. 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., 'Avyssos', pg. 319. Online here.