Site details

Toumba Mesimeriatiki

PK	C1677
TITLE	Toumba Mesimeriatiki
WGS84	40.372097° N, 22.960407° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	40.372097, 22.960407
LON/LAT	22.960407, 40.372097

DMS

40° 22' 19.5492" N

22° 57' 37.4652" E

W3W	camped, down, evaporation
UTM	34 T, 666433, 4470902
EGSA87	411594, 4469290

Elevation m	5
Elevation feet	16.4
Region	Macedonia
Subregion	Chalcidice

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Mound.   Leekley and Efstratiou [1980], 87    'W.A. Heurtley of the British School excavated a prehistoric mound on the west coast of Chalcidice ... '
2.    Mound.   French [1967], 17    'Topography: mound, on coast; ... '
3.    Settlement.   Leekley and Efstratiou [1980], 87    'Traces of six successive settlements of the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age were found.'
4.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 183    'It is not clear whether or not there were Mycenaean sherds in the LB stratum investigated here by Heurtley.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 87, ' ... Early Bronze Age ... '

2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 183, 'LB LH III?'

3. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 183, 'LB LH III?'

4. Early Iron Age: (1200 BC - 960 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 87, ' ... small-scale reoccupation in the sub-Mycenaean and Early Iron Ages.'

5. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 87, ' ... small-scale reoccupation in the sub-Mycenaean and Early Iron Ages.'

NOTES

1.  Leekley and Efstratiou [1980] 87 also note 'The site had previously been noted by L. Rey ... '

2.  French [1967] seems to have made an error of consistency here. He designates this site 'C 3' on 17 but 'C 2' on p 60. Simpson uses 'C 3' for this site and so have I.

3.  The Mycenaean Atlas Project would like to thank Dr. Stratos Nanoglou of the University of Thessalonika for making available a copy of French [1967] which would have been otherwise difficult to obtain.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. French [1967]: French, D.H.. Index of Prehistoric Sites in Central Macedonia and Catalogue of Sherd Material in The University of Thessaloniki. Athens, 'Kritsana C 3', pg. 17.

2. Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: Leekley, Dorothy and Nicholas Efstratiou. Archaeological Excavations in Northern Greece. Noyes Press, Park Ridge, New Jersey. 1980, 'Kritsana (Thessaloniki)', pg. 87.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Kritziana: Toumba Mesimeriatiki', pg. 183. DH French, CM No. C 3
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