Site details

Plastiras Cemetery

PK	C6942
TITLE	Plastiras Cemetery
WGS84	37.131472° N, 25.219863° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	37.131472, 25.219863
LON/LAT	25.219863, 37.131472

DMS

37° 7' 53.2992" N

25° 13' 11.5068" E

W3W	adjudicate, infringe, narrow
UTM	35 S, 341876.57, 4110940.21
EGSA87	608205, 4109865

Elevation m	6
Elevation feet	19.7
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Paros

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Karantzali [1996], 29    ' ..., des statuettes du type de Plastiras ..., une écuelle ouverte en marbre ... , un petit outil en bronze ainsi que des lames d'obsidienne ... '
2.    Artifacts.   Doumas [1977], 17    'A new type of marble figurine is one of the most characteristic of the Plastiras group, ... '
3.    Cem.   Katsarou and Schilardi [2004], 43    'Marble vessels - popular valuable objects with the EC settlers in the nearby Plastiras cemetery - ... '
4.    CEM.   Karantzali [1996], 29    ' ..., Doumas a fouille un cimetiere de 12 tombs, ... '
5.    Cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 318    '12 graves, mostly plundered, were excavated at Plastiras near Kamares, ... '
6.    Pottery.   Karantzali [1996], 29    ' ... des cratérisques en marbre ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Cycladic: (3200 BC - 1850 BC)
    a.    Katsarou and Schilardi [2004]: 43, ' ... EC settlers in the nearby Plastiras cemetery - ... '
    b.    Katsarou and Schilardi [2004]: 46, ' ... in the neighbouring EC cemetery at Plastiras - ... '

2. Early Cycladic I: (3200 BC - 2700 BC)
    a.    Karantzali [1996]: 29, 'Doumas date le matériel de Plastiras de la fin du CAI ("groupe de Plastiras").'

3. Grotta-Pelos: (3000 BC - 2600 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 318, 'GP'

NOTE

1. See in Doumas [1977] for a discussion of

Pottery forms of the Plastiras type: pp. 16-17.
Distribution of pottery forms of the Plastiras type: p. 25.
A descriptive table of the dozen graves found at Plastiras: p. 40, Fig. 21, 'Plastiras'.
Table of artifacts, p. 58, Fig. 39, 'Plastiras'.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Doumas [1977]: Doumas,Christos. Early Bronze Age Burial Habits in the Cyclades. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, 48, Paul Astroms Forlag, Johannesbergsgatan 24, Goteborg, Sweden. 1977., 'iii. The Plastiras Group', pg. 16.

2. Karantzali [1996]: Karantzali, Efi. Le Bronze Ancien dans les Cyclades et en Crete; Les relations entre les deux regions; Influence de la Grece Continentale. BAR International Series 631, 'Plastiras', pg. 29. Online here.

3. Katsarou and Schilardi [2004]: Katsarou, Stella and Demetrius U. Schilardi. ‘Emerging Neolithic and Early Cycladic Settlements in Paros: Koukounaries and Sklavouna ’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (99) 23-48. 2004., 'Late Neolithic II -The Neolithic to EBA transition', pg. 43. Online here.

4. 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., 'Plastiras', pg. 318. Online here.