Site details

Kleidos

PK	C7168
TITLE	Kleidos
WGS84	36.98696° N, 25.555493° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	36.98696, 25.555493
LON/LAT	25.555493, 36.98696

DMS

36° 59' 13.056" N

25° 33' 19.7748" E

W3W	chatters, hostilities, headlined
UTM	35 S, 371447.71, 4094400.86
EGSA87	638282, 4094268

Elevation m	72
Elevation feet	236.2
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Naxos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Renfrew [2011], 11426    'More recent unauthorised excavations apparently yielded metal daggers (machaira), ... '
2.    Artifacts.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 332    ' ...; reports of metal daggers among the finds ... '
3.    Cist Tomb.   Renfrew [2011], 11426    'Cist grave cemetery excavated by Stephanos ... '
4.    Cist Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 332    'Cists have been excavated here toward the S end of the E coast, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 332, 'EB (KS?)'

2. Keros-Syros: (2600 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 332, 'EB (KS?)', ' ...; reports of metal daggers among the finds should indicate a KS date.'
    b.    Renfrew [2011]: 11426, ' ..., so that some graves were presumably of the Keros-Syros culture.'

NOTES

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

2. This location has been selected as a synthesis of several sources. Simpson and Dickinson [1979] 332, 'Kleidos' suggest that Kleidos is the same as Doumas' 'Palioklidha'. In Doumas 'Palioklidha' is shown as no. 24 in Fig. 2, p. 13. Wong [2020] Figure 1 shows Kleidos in about the same place but specifies (in Table 3) that it is at an elevation of 66 m. and ~375 m. from the coast. I picked a location that synthesizes these observations. The reader should use caution.

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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., '',

2. 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), '28. Kleidos ... ', pg. 11426. Online here.

3. 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., 'Kleidos', pg. 332. Online here.

4. Wong [2020]: Wong, Todd. esri Canada | Centres of Excellence, '', Online here.