Site details

Spedos

PK	C7163
TITLE	Spedos
WGS84	36.952716° N, 25.504181° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	36.952716, 25.504181
LON/LAT	25.504181, 36.952716

DMS

36° 57' 9.7776" N

25° 30' 15.0516" E

W3W	dislocation, cooperates, defined
UTM	35 S, 366878.04, 4090689.1
EGSA87	633831, 4090414

Elevation m	74
Elevation feet	242.8
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Naxos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 330    ' ..., and an associated cemetery of 25 graves has been excavated.'
2.    Fort.   Renfrew [2011], 11411    'Important fortified settlement ... '
3.    Settlement.   Renfrew [2011], 11411    'Important fortified settlement ... '
4.    Settlement.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 330    'A fortified settlement has been found here, on a hill near the SE coast, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Grotta-Pelos: (3000 BC - 2600 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 330, 'GP KS Phyl I?'
    b.    Renfrew [2011]: 11411, ' ... settlement of the Grotta-Pelos and Keros-Syros culture ... excavated by Stephanos.'

2. Keros-Syros: (2600 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 330, 'GP KS Phyl I?'
    b.    Renfrew [2011]: 11411, ' ... settlement of the Grotta-Pelos and Keros-Syros culture ... excavated by Stephanos.'

3. Phylakopi I: (2200 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 330, 'One incised pyxis may be of Phyl I date.','GP KS Phyl I?'

NOTES

1.  Page numbers in Renfrew [2011] are, in actuality, location numbers in the electronic edition, ISBN 978-1-78570-773-5.

2.  There is a valuable photograph in an article, 'The Southeast Naxos Survey 2015', in the blog Archaeology News Network published on 12/23/2014. The photograph is here.

3.  BCH report 5567 summarizes the activity of the Southeast Naxos Survey - 2015. Position taken from map no. 4 of that report which shows sherd scatters around the Spedos plateau.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BCH Online: Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, 'Southeast Naxos Survey - 2015', no. 5567. Online here.

2. 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., '',

3. Renfrew [2011]: Renfrew, Colin. The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millenium BC. Oxbow Books. Second ed., 2011 (First edition 1972), '22. Spedos', pg. 11411. 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., 'Spedos', pg. 330. Online here.