Palaiochori
| PK | C7086 |
| TITLE | Palaiochori |
| WGS84 | 38.826207° N, 23.245646° E |
| Accuracy | 50 m. |
| LAT/LON | 38.826207, 23.245646 |
| LON/LAT | 23.245646, 38.826207 |
| DMS | 38° 49' 34.3452" N | , | 23° 14' 44.3256" E |
| W3W | elapses, lull, embellish |
| UTM | 34 S, 694940.01, 4299886.69 |
| EGSA87 | 434370, 4297474 |
| Elevation m | 243 |
| Elevation feet | 797.2 |
| Region | Euboea |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds
TYPE
1. Hab. Sackett et al. [1966], 48 ' ... deep ploughing has uncovered an earlier site ... '2. Sherds. Sackett et al. [1966], 48 ' ..., E.H., possible M.H., and a few Roman sherds.'
3. Sherds. Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 270 ' ... good N and EH II sherds were found.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
a. Sackett et al. [1966]: , ' ..., E.H., possible M.H., and a few Roman sherds.'
2. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
a. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 270, ' ... good N and EH II sherds were found.'
3. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
a. Sackett et al. [1966]: 48, ' ..., E.H., possible M.H., and a few Roman sherds.'
NOTE
1. The area marked in Sackett et al. [1966] 47, fig. 5 as 'Ruins' I have now added to this atlas as C7086. Of this area Sackett says: "About 400 m. from this site (C1248, RHC) on the left of the road to Ayios Ayinnakos more deep ploughing has uncovered an earlier site on a south-facing slope, with Neolithic worked flint and chippings, E.H., possible M.H., and a few Roman sherds. The site ... seems to have been abandoned at the end of E.H."
The key to this topography appears to be the small village of Aghianakos (now much reduced) which I place (based on Topoguide) at F6130.
The place where the track from Rovies to Aghianakkos breaks off to the right to go to Palaiochori is at F6132.
C1248 (corresponding to Sackett's Palaiochori A on the map on p. 47) is now placed significantly to the W of this intersection but north of the road. From the map and from Sackett's description I believe we are to understand that there are sherd concentrations on both sides of this road ("To right and left of the path the land rises, and both slopes are strewn with sherds.").
Now C7086 is placed 400 m. further uphill (E) from C1248.
The stream that Sackett mentions is plausibly at F6134. All this area has been disturbed by extensive olive monocrop agriculture.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Sackett et al. [1966]: Sackett, L.H., and V. Hankey, R.J. Howell, T.W. Jacobsen, M.R. Popham. ‘Prehistoric Euboea: Contributions toward a Survey’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 61, pp. 33-112, [1966], '20. Rovies: Palaiokhori ... ', pg. 48.
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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., 'G 96 Rovies: Palaiokhori', pg. 270.
Online here.