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Angourelia Sarakinas

PKC7202
TITLEAngourelia Sarakinas
WGS84 39.331459° N, 26.377688° E
Accuracy 100 m.

LAT/LON 39.331459, 26.377688
LON/LAT 26.377688, 39.331459

DMS 39° 19' 53.2524" N,26° 22' 39.6768" E

W3Wcanals, chafe, hounding
UTM35 S, 446365.03, 4353744.61
EGSA87 704788, 4355969

Elevation m221
Elevation feet 725.1
RegionNE Aegean
SubregionLesbos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Sherds

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Spencer [1995/2019], 49    ' ..., a spindle whorl and a scatter of lithics and millstones.'
2.    Lithics.   Spencer [1995/2019], 49    ' ... and a scatter of lithics and millstones.'
3.    Sherds.   Spencer [1995/2019], 49    ' ... including black and grey Troy I sherds, ... ', ' ..., pieces of pithoi, ...
4.    Sherds.   Lambrianides and Spencer [2008], 335    'On a prominent rocky ridge, EB sherds including pithoi and tubular lugs similar to Thermi and Troy I were found, ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Lambrianides and Spencer [2008]: 335, ' ..., EB sherds ... '
    b.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 49, ' ... Axiotis reported a scatter of EBA. material including ... '

2. Troy I: (2950 BC - 2350 BC)
    a.    Lambrianides and Spencer [2008]: 335, ' ... similar to Thermi and Troy I were found, ... '
    b.    Spencer [1995/2019]: 49, ' ... including black and grey Troy I sherds, ... '

NOTE

1.  Dr. Spencer's reference to Axiotis is: M. Axiotis, Περπατώντας τη Λέσβο : Τοπογραφία - Ἱστορία - Άρχαιολογία, Mytilene, 1992.   I, 185.    More can be learned here.

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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], 'Angourelia Sarakinas', 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., '238. Angourella Sarakinas', pg. 49.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C7202 is at 39.34014° N, 26.3732° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 41 m.