Site details

Kos: Langadha: Cem

PK	C1428
TITLE	Kos: Langadha: Cem
WGS84	36.887294° N, 27.279603° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	36.887294, 27.279603
LON/LAT	27.279603, 36.887294

DMS

36° 53' 14.2584" N

27° 16' 46.5708" E

W3W	blunt, trailer, tiny
UTM	35 S, 524915, 4082406
EGSA87	792134, 4087105

Elevation m	17
Elevation feet	55.8
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Kos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 361    'A large LH cemetery was excavated at Langadha (and Eleona nearby), c. 1 km. to SW of the Serraglio site, ...'
2.    Cem.   Simpson [1981], 200    'A large Mycenaean cemetery was excavated at Langadha (and at Eleona nearby), about a kilometre to southwest of the Seraglio site, with which the cemetery must surely be connected.'
3.    Cem.   Georgiadis [2012], 6    'It is the largest Mycenaean cemetery on the island, consisting of at least 82 tombs ranging in date from LH IIB-IIIA:1 to LH IIIC.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 200, 'LH IIB-IIIC PG G'
    b.    Georgiadis [2012]: 6, '... tombs ranging in date from LH IIB-IIIA:1 to LH IIIC.'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 361, 'Burials began in LH IIB ...'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 200, 'LH IIB-IIIC PG G'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 361, '...and continued well into LH IIIC, ...'

3. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2012]: 6, '... tombs ranging in date from LH IIB-IIIA:1 to LH IIIC.'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 200, 'LH IIB-IIIC PG G'
    b.    Georgiadis [2012]: 6, '... tombs ranging in date from LH IIB-IIIA:1 to LH IIIC.'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 361, '...and continued well into LH IIIC, ...'

5. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 200, 'LH IIB-IIIC PG G'
    b.    Georgiadis [2012]: 6, '... tombs ranging in date from LH IIB-IIIA:1 to LH IIIC.'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 361, '...and continued well into LH IIIC, ...', 'The quantity and quality of the LH IIIC vases is striking.'

6. Late Protogeometric: (950 BC - 925 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 361, '...the earliest DA finds are LPG.'

NOTES

1. Positioned by following the map in Vitale [2009], p. 1234, fig. 1. Regrettably only the abstract is available online.

2. Also 'Serraglio, Eleona, and Langada Archaeological Project (SELAP): Report on the Results of the 2011 to 2015 Study Seasons' by Salvatore Vitale, Toula Marketou, and Calla McNamee (Vitale et al., [2017]) pp. 226-285, Vol. XCIV, Serie III, 16 (Print: ISSN 0067-0081; Online: ISSN 2585-2418) of the Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene, and which is online here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Georgiadis [2012]: Georgiadis, M.. Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2012., '(6)', pg. 6. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Kos: Langadha', pg. 200. Online here.

3. 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., 'Kos: Langhada', pg. 361. Online here.

4. Vitale [2009]: Vitale, Salvatore. ‘Serraglio, Eleona,And Langada Archaeological Project(Selap):Report On The Results Of The 2009 And 2010 Study Seasons’, SAIA Annuario (87), serie III.9, tomo II. Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene. 2009, 'Serraglio,Eleona,And Langada Archaeological Project (SELAP)', pg. 1233. Online here.