Naxos and the Cyclades

Charalambidou, Xénia; Vlachopoulos, Andreas

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“…Despite the existence of numerous documented archaeological sites where the damaging impact of earthquakes is assumed, it still remains difficult to understand the impact of palaeo‐earthquakes on the local, regional and supra‐regional developments of LBA societies. Case studies from Palaikastro in LMIa, the Cycladic islands (Vlachopoulos & Charalambidou 2020; Cline 2020), and Argolis in the 13th century bc (Maran & Papadimitriou 2020), the last still in question, have previously shown that impact at a local or regional level, often at the epicentre of the event, is most likely. The validity of such a microregional approach, as opposed to supra‐regional explanations, is suggested by the data from the Ohrid region, where varying habitation dynamics were observed in areas with different tectonic settings that were only a few kilometres apart.…”

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Geoarchaeological evidence on a Late Bronze Age earthquake, Ohrid Basin (North Macedonia)

Hošek

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Pokorný

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J Quaternary Science

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Geoarchaeological investigations on the northeastern shore of Lake Ohrid revealed 3.5 m thick deepwater lacustrine sediments overlying terrestrial vegetation macrofossils, worked wood and abundant potsherds dated to the Late Bronze Age (LBA). Distinct contact of deepwater sediment with the sub-aerial weathered limestone bedrock point to a sudden increase in lake level. According to radiocarbon data, catastrophic flooding occurred shortly after 1214 yr BC. Because the area is located in a highly active seismic zone, we propose that this event was caused by tectonically induced, metre-scale coseismic subsidence related to faults bordering the Ohrid alluvial plain. Moreover, this event coincides well with a dramatic switch in the habitation and settlement strategy in the region. More important, however, is the finding that the age of the proposed massive tectonic event and change in habitation lies within the interval of the proposed 'earthquake storm' in the eastern Mediterranean dated to 1225-1175 BC. As the Ohrid-Korça zone belongs to the same tectonic province, a relationship between the abovementioned earthquakes and the proposed event can be expected. This research therefore might provide the first direct evidence of a large-scale earthquake event linkable to the LBA collapse of Europe's first urban civilisation in the Aegean.

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Geoarchaeological evidence on a Late Bronze Age earthquake, Ohrid Basin (North Macedonia)

Hošek

Verčík

Pokorný

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J Quaternary Science

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“…The Cyclades and Dodecanese follow their own patterns in the Postpalatial period, with marked continuity from LH IIIB to LH IIIC, and in some cases even thriving in LH IIIC (Barnes 2016;Vlachopoulos and Charalambidou 2020).…”

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Societies in Transition in Early Greece

Knodell¹

2021

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IllustrationsFIGURES 1. Nested (but often overlapping) scales of social and spatial units 20 2. Line graph and table of number of sites by period, by region, in central Greece 44 3. Comparative sizes of Mycenaean palaces 72 4. Some lesser-known tholoi of central Greece 87 5. LH IIIC pottery with seafaring, siege, and feasting scenes 130 6. Toumba building and cemetery at Lefkandi 163 7. Examples of Geometric pottery with early writing and figural scenes 221 MAPS xiv Preface and Acknowledgementsto the Mediterranean? How can archaeological analysis cross these scales? How do the trajectories of early Greek societies relate to those of other human groups (or not)? These questions are necessarily broad, and in this book I have aimed to address them in a way that will resonate with archaeologists interested in other parts of the world as well. With this in mind, I set out to write an archaeological history relevant to people working in a variety of disciplinary traditions-archaeologists and historians of ancient Greece, as well as anthropological archaeologists concerned with the broader archaeology of complex societies.The arguments in this book are built on the achievements of generations of previous scholars. I hope to do justice to their work in discussing it here, incorporating it into new analyses or visualizations, or reframing it in new interpretations. Even if I am in occasional disagreement with these scholars, I have tremendous respect for the efforts of fieldwork, interpretation, and publication that have allowed for the type of synthesis presented here. This book deals with a broad range of evidence and ideas, and it is inevitable that I have gotten some of it wrong. There are certainly sites, discoveries, or interpretations that I have overlooked, and the relevant dataset is ever evolving. Nevertheless, I hope to have provided some new insights concerning early Greece and the Mediterranean world, in ways that will be useful to other scholars as well.My interests in early Greece and the archaeology of complex societies were fos-

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“…The harbour of Naxos was a node of communication with the world beyond the island and a base for the circulation of wares within it (as certain grave-offerings from the Tsikalario cemetery indicate; see below). After the abandonment of the Mycenaean settlement of Grotta towards the end of the Late Helladic (LH) IIIC period, a new habitation phase is indicated (Vlachopoulos and Charalambidou forthcoming) by a small quantity of late Sub-Mycenaean/Early Protogeometric (SM/EPG) pottery at the same site, as well as an EPG (child?) burial, cist grave 12, at Aplomata 2 .…”

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Iron Age Mortuary Practices and Material Culture at the Inland Cemetery of Tsikalario on Naxos: Differentiation and Connectivity

Charalambidou

2018

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Naxos, the largest of the Cycladic islands, offers a nuanced insight into Iron Age funerary behaviour in the Cyclades and relations between social groups as reflected in the archaeological record. The focus of this paper is the cemetery of Tsikalario in the hinterland of the island, with emphasis on two burial contexts which exhibit a range of activities related to funerary ceremonies and the consumption of grave-offerings. The grave-tumuli found in the Tsikalario cemetery comprise a mortuary ‘phenomenon’ not found otherwise on Naxos during the Early Iron Age. Such a differentiation in mortuary practice can be interpreted as a strategy used by the people of inland Naxos to distinguish their funerary habits from the more typical Naxian practices of, for example, the inhabitants of the coastal Naxos harbour town. This distinctive funerary practice can speak in favour of an attempt by the kinship group(s) that buried their deceased in the cemetery of Tsikalario to articulate status and identity. Beyond these tumuli, evidence from a different type of grave context at Tsikalario – Cist Grave 11 and its vicinity (Burial Context 11) – offers an additional example of a well-thought-out staging of funerary beliefs in the inland region of Naxos. Not only does it illustrate the coexistence of other types of burials in the cemetery, but, alongside the tumuli and their finds, it also demonstrates, through the symbolic package of the grave-offerings and the multifaceted network of interactions they reveal, that inland Naxos participated in the intra- and supra-island circulation of wares and ideas.

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Naxos and the Cyclades

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Geoarchaeological evidence on a Late Bronze Age earthquake, Ohrid Basin (North Macedonia)

Geoarchaeological evidence on a Late Bronze Age earthquake, Ohrid Basin (North Macedonia)

Societies in Transition in Early Greece

Iron Age Mortuary Practices and Material Culture at the Inland Cemetery of Tsikalario on Naxos: Differentiation and Connectivity

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