Site details

Stavros

PK	C616
TITLE	Stavros
WGS84	38.450015° N, 20.645639° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	38.450015, 20.645639
LON/LAT	20.645639, 38.450015

DMS

38° 27' 0.054" N

20° 38' 44.3004" E

W3W	adjoined, purport, term
UTM	34 S, 469079, 4255806
EGSA87	207116, 4260791

Elevation m	133
Elevation feet	436.4
Region	Ionian Islands
Subregion	Ithaca

GENERAL SITE TYPE Hab

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   BSA [1952], 240
2.    hab.   Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999], 93    '..a rectangular building..'
3.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 186    ' ...; the pre-LH pottery may include both EH and MH.'
4.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 186    'Within the village, traces of a BA settlement were found ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 186, ' ..., traces of a BA settlement were found ... '

2. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 186, ' ...; the pre-LH pottery may include both EH and MH.'

3. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 186, ' ...; the pre-LH pottery may include both EH and MH.'

4. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 186, 'A few LH sherds were also found near the Asprosykia fountain on the W side of the village.'

5. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: 93, 'was 'perhaps Mycenaean, to judge from a few LM III sherds'.'

6. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 186, 'EH? MH? LH III(A-B) C'

7. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 186, 'EH? MH? LH III(A-B) C'

8. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    BSA [1952]: 240,

NOTE

1. 'In 1930 the British School team cleared a rectangular building on the northern side of Stavros, which was 'perhaps Mycenaean, to judge from a few LM III sherds'.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BSA [1952]: Annual of the British School at Athens, Athens, Greece. (47) 1952., '', pg. 227. Online here.

2. 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., 'E 16 Ithaca: Stavros Village', pg. 186. Online here.

3. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood [1999]: Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, Christina. The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age; 3000-800 B.C.. Liverpool University Press. 1999. , 'Stavros (48)', pg. 93. Online here.