Site details

Archangelos: Anagros

PK	C1401
TITLE	Archangelos: Anagros
WGS84	36.219209° N, 28.12168° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	36.219209, 28.12168
LON/LAT	28.12168, 36.219209

DMS

36° 13' 9.1524" N

28° 7' 18.048" E

W3W	blossoming, sleepovers, offer
UTM	35 S, 600816, 4008846
EGSA87	870396, 4015857

Elevation m	229
Elevation feet	751.3
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Rhodes

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Georgiadis [2003], 39    'The Mycenaean settlement was probably centred on the Anagros hill and the cemetery seems to have been situated south-west of it.'
2.    Lithics.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 356    '...including sherds apparently N and EB and two possibly LH, in addition to obsidian, were found on the hill of Anagros ...'
3.    Lithics.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 356    '...including sherds apparently N and EB and two possibly LH, in addition to obsidian, were found on the hill of Anagros ...'
4.    Settlement.   Simpson [1981], 199    'Signs of prehistoric settlement, including sherds apparently Neolithic and Early Bronze and two possibly Mycenaean ...'
5.    Settlement.   Georgiadis [2003], 39    'The Mycenaean settlement was probably centred on the Anagros hill ... '
6.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 356    '...including sherds apparently N and EB and two possibly LH, in addition to obsidian, were found on the hill of Anagros ...'
7.    Sherds.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 152    'Most of the pottery appears to be Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, but two sherds may be Mycenaean.'
8.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 356    '...including sherds apparently N and EB and two possibly LH, in addition to obsidian, were found on the hill of Anagros ...'

SITE SIZE

- Simpson [1981]  p. 198,  Size: 15000 sq. m.  '...over an extent of about 150 m. north to south by 100 m.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 198, 'N? EB? LH IIIA2-C'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 152, ... Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, but two sherds may be Mycenaean.'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 356, '...and two (sherds, RHC) possibly LH,...'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 152, ... Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, but two sherds may be Mycenaean.'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 356, '...and two (sherds, RHC) possibly LH,...'
    d.    Georgiadis [2003]: 39, 'The Mycenaean settlement ... '

3. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 198, 'N? EB? LH IIIA2-C'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 198, 'N? EB? LH IIIA2-C'

5. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 198, 'N? EB? LH IIIA2-C'

NOTE

1. Placement based on the sketch map in Simpson and Lazenby[1973] 153, Fig. 5.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Georgiadis [2003]: Georgiadis, Mercourios. The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period; Islands, landscape, death and ancestors. BAR International Series 1196. 2003., '', pg. 39. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Archangelos: Anagros and Mala', pg. 198. Online here.

3. Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby. ‘Notes from the Dodecanese III’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 68, pp. 127-179, 1973., 'Archangelos: Anagros', pg. 152. Online here.

4. 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., 'Archangelos: Anagros and Mala', pg. 356. Online here.