Site details
Plakari
| PK | C5228 |
| TITLE | Plakari |
| WGS84 | 38.008427° N, 24.391864° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 38.008427, 24.391864 |
| LON/LAT | 24.391864, 38.008427 |
| DMS | 38° 0' 30.3372" N | , | 24° 23' 30.7104" E |
| W3W | mosses, bowling, overhear |
| UTM | 35 S, 271020, 4209960 |
| EGSA87 | 534252, 4206535 |
| Elevation m | 77 |
| Elevation feet | 252.6 |
| Region | Euboea |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Sanctuary
TYPE
1. Sanctuary. AR[2011], 24 'Initial reports ... indicate that a sanctuary of regional - and perhaps even supra-regional - importance was located on the site.'PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
a. AR[2011]: 25, 'The earliest pottery so far recorded is Early Iron Age.'
2. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
a. AR[2011]: 25, 'The earliest pottery so far recorded is Early Iron Age.'
NOTES
1. See detailed map online here. The home page for the Plakari, Karystos project is here.
2. And see here the article by Xenia Charalambidou, 'The pottery from the sacrificial refuse area in Plakari-Karystos: A first assessment', pp. 253-274 in An Island Between Two Worlds; The Archaeology of Euboea from Prehistoric to Byzantine Times, edited by Žarko Tankosić, Fanis Mavridis, and Maria Kosma. Norwegian Institute at Athens, Athens, Greece. 2017. ISBN: 978-96085145-6-0
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. AR[2011]: Archaeological Reports, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. (58) 2011., 'Karystos', pg. 24.
Online here.