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Ayios Bartholomaios

PKC7201
TITLEAyios Bartholomaios
WGS84 39.06666° N, 26.557032° E
Accuracy 10 m.

LAT/LON 39.06666, 26.557032
LON/LAT 26.557032, 39.06666

DMS 39° 3' 59.976" N,26° 33' 25.3152" E

W3Welevating, outsells, loops
UTM35 S, 461678.56, 4324267.32
EGSA87 721078, 4326999

Elevation m226
Elevation feet 741.5
RegionNE Aegean
SubregionLesbos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Cave.   Spencer [1995/2019], 10    ' ..., is the small mouth of a cave ... '
2.    Pottery.   Lambrianides and Spencer [2008], 335    'Inside the cave a number of whole EB vessels were found.'
3.    Pottery.   Spencer [1995/2019], 10    ' ... Paraskeuaidis discovered complete hand-made LN./EBA. vessels in the cave ... '
4.    Sherds.   Spencer [1995/2019], 10    ' ... later Koumarelas collected a large number of smaller sherds in the first chamber of the cave.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Neolithic: (4500 BC - 3100 BC)
    a.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 10, ' ... hand-made LN./EBA. vessels in the cave ... '

2. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Lambrianides and Spencer [2008]: 335, 'Inside the cave a number of whole EB vessels were found.'
    b.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 10, ' ... hand-made LN./EBA. vessels in the cave ... '

NOTE

1.  See Lambriades and Spencer [2008] 347, Fig. 4 for a photograph of some of the pots found in this cave.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Erkanal et al. [2008]:  Erkanal, Hayat and Harald Hauptmann, Vasıf Şahoğlu, Rıza Tuncel. The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age. Ankara Üniversitesi / Ankara University Sualti Arkeolojik Araştirma ve Uygulama Merkezi (Anküsam), Research Center For Maritime Archaeology (Anküsam), Yayın No / Publication No: 1, Ankara, 2008., '',

2.  Lambrianides and Spencer [2008]:  Lambrianides, Kyriacos and Nigel Spencer. ‘The Early Bronze Age Sites of Lesbos and the Madra Çay Delta: New Light on a Discrete Regional Centre of Prehistoric Settlement and Society in the Northeast Aegean’, In Erkanal et al. (eds.) [2008], 'Agios Bartholomaios', pg. 335. Online here.

3.  Spencer [1995/2019]:  Spencer, Nigel. A Gazetteer of Archaeological Sites in Lesbos. BAR International Series 623; BAR Publishing, Oxford UK., '*35. Agios Bartholomaios', pg. 10.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C7201 is at 39.06339° N, 26.53327° E, a straight-line distance of 2 km and 86 m.