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Kastro-Tigani

PK	C1491
TITLE	Kastro–Tigani
WGS84	37.689415° N, 26.938203° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	37.689415, 26.938203
LON/LAT	26.938203, 37.689415

DMS

37° 41' 21.894" N

26° 56' 17.5308" E

W3W	glovebox, elder, rots
UTM	35 S, 494551.59, 4171357.68
EGSA87	758932, 4175131

Elevation m	8
Elevation feet	26.2
Region	NE Aegean
Subregion	Samos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   AD[1967], 463
2.    Artifacts.   AM[1935], 190
3.    Lithics.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 368    ' ..., but include stone objects of EC type ... '
4.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 368    ' ..., was first settled in LN; ... '
5.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 206    'The contents of a pit included decorated sherds of LM IA style, and plain wares of MM III-LM I type, together with local wares ... LH III surface sherds have also been found...'
6.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 368    'Material ranging from "MM III to LM II" and LH IIIA-B is also reported ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age I: (3300 BC - 3000 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 206, 'N EB (I?) MB LH I (-II) LH III(A-B) PG G A C H'

2. Early Cycladic: (3200 BC - 1850 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 368, ' ..., but include stone objects of EC type apparently contemporary sherds.'

3. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 206, 'N EB (I?) MB LH I (-II) LH III(A-B) PG G A C H'

4. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 368, 'Material ranging from "MM III to LM II" and LH IIIA-B is also reported ... ', ' ..., perhaps local, plain wares of MM III - LM I type, ... '

5. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 206, 'N EB (I?) MB LH I (-II) LH III(A-B) PG G A C H'

6. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 368, ' ..., perhaps local, plain wares of MM III - LM I type, ... '

7. Late Minoan IA: (1675 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 368, ' ...; the contents of a pit certainly included decorated of LM IA style, ... '

8. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 206, 'N EB (I?) MB LH I (-II) LH III(A-B) PG G A C H'

9. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 368, 'Material ranging from "MM III to LM II" and LH IIIA-B is also reported ... '

10. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 206, 'N EB (I?) MB LH I (-II) LH III(A-B) PG G A C H'
    b.    AM[1935]: 190,
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 368, 'Material ranging from "MM III to LM II" and LH IIIA-B is also reported ... '

11. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 206, 'N EB (I?) MB LH I (-II) LH III(A-B) PG G A C H'
    b.    AM[1935]: 190,
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 368, 'Material ranging from "MM III to LM II" and LH IIIA-B is also reported ... '

12. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    AD[1967]: 463,

NOTE

1. Position based on the map in Menelaou and Kouka [2022] 21, Fig. 8(b).

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. AD[1967]: Archaiologikon Deltion, Athens, Greece, v. 22, '', pg. 463.

2. AM[1935]: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung, Germany. 1935., '', pg. 190.

3. Menelaou and Kouka [2022]: Menelaou, Sergios and Ourania Kouka. ‘Tracing Interaction on Samos Island: Pottery Traditions and Connectivity at Kastro-Tigani and the Heraion During the Aegean Late-Final Neolithic/Western Anatolian Middle-Late Chalcolithic’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (117) 1-52, 'Tracing Interaction on Samos Island: ... ', pg. 1. Online here.

4. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Tigani: Kastro', pg. 206. Online here.

5. 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., 'Tigani : Kastro (Pythagoreion)', pg. 368. Online here.