Early Cycladic Pottery from Akrotiri on Thera and its Chronological Implications

Sotirakopoulou, Panayiota

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“…TRANSITION Bowls with rolled rims, often occurring in a characteristic heavy burnished ware, belong mainly to the late FN-EH I periods of southern Greece (Renfrew 1972), but in the Cyclades they seem to continue into Early Cycladic II (Evans & Renfrew 1984) and even later (Sotirakopoulou 1986). French (1961) and Renfrew (1972) drew attention to a specific bowl type; the rolled rim bowl with a long tunnel lug set below the rim, which is typical for Kum Tepe Ib, Emporio VII-VI, and the Cycladic Grotta-Pelos culture, but had disappeared completely in Kum Tepe Ic and Emporio V-IV, which are contemporary with Troy I (Renfrew 1972, 162;Sperling 1976;Hood 1981).…”

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Chronology of Greece and South-east Europe in the Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

Johnson

1999

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Final Neolithic to Early Bronze Age chronology in Greece remains obscure due to a lack of stratified deposits and radiocarbon dates. In this paper the Greek evidence is considered in the light of typological parallels, stratigraphic sequences, and the larger series of radiocarbon dates available from the south-east European cultures, and a tentative chronology for Greece and south-east Europe is presented. The evidence does not support the earlier notion of an overlap between the Thessalian Rachmani period and the Early Helladic period of southern Greece, but rather suggests that Rachmani is essentially contemporary with the southern Greek Final Neolithic. The Final Neolithic-Early Bronze Age transition in southern Greece shows affinities to Petromagoula in Thessaly and the Bolerdz culture of Europe. Several radiocarbon dates place the Bolerdz period in the early 5th millennium BP, suggesting that dates from FN-EBA transitional contexts in Greece may, in the future, help to fill the existing early 5th millennium gap in the Greek radiocarbon date series.

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Chronology of Greece and South-east Europe in the Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

Johnson

1999

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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“… 3 Rare discoid loomweights, slightly different in morphology from later Minoanising discoid loomweights, also exist in Phase A deposits at Akrotiri (Vakirtzi in Nikolakopoulou forthcoming). It is not yet clear whether the differences in form among the Theran loomweights might suggest a slightly different process of technological transmission or innovation than is represented at Ayia Irini, where Period IV loomweights appear to be of standard Minoanising type.…”

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Minoanisation in the Middle Bronze Age: Evaluating the Role of Cycladic Producers and Consumers

Abell

2016

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Minoanisation – the process by which Cretan ways of doing things spread throughout the Aegean – is a major focus of study in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Cycladic islands, but debate about the primary causes of the phenomenon has been concerned chiefly with its Late Bronze Age phases. In this article, the author considers the earliest phase of Minoanisation at Ayia Irini on Kea, Period V. The ceramic assemblage is considered holistically, including local and imported as well as Minoanising and non-Minoanising pottery. The Keian assemblage is compared with recently published discussions of Phase C at Akrotiri on Thera and City II-iii at Phylakopi on Melos. New, non-Minoanising features of the Keian assemblage in Period V, particularly in the form of new shapes and increased importation of Melian and/or Theran pottery, suggest that Melian and/or Theran communities engaged in new production and exchange strategies at this time. It is likely that these new intra-Cycladic relationships played an important role in changing local tastes and practices at Ayia Irini, spurring the adoption of new Minoanising as well as non-Minoanising forms of material culture and practice.

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“…22 Doumas accepted the designation EC III A for the 'Kastri group', 23 and so until quite recently did the author of this article. 24 Rutter at first stated that the 'Kastri group' fell between the EB 2 'Keros-Syros' and the EB 3 'Phylakopi I' culture. 25 Later, however, he reached different conclusions: (a) that the 'Kastri group' should be placed in the late part of the duration of EC II and should therefore be labelled EC II B rather than EC III A; (b) that the 'Phylakopi I culture' should be transposed to the MC I period and should therefore be rechristened MC I instead of EC III B; and (c) that between the 'Kastri' and 'Phylakopi I' phases there exists a 'gap' in time corresponding to EC III.…”

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The chronology of the ‘Kastri group’ reconsidered

Sotirakopoulou¹

1993

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The single ceramic phase of the Aegean Early Bronze Age known as the ‘Kastri group’ has been dated by scholars either to an early phase of EB 3 or to the late phase of EB 2. However, careful examination of the contextual associations of the characteristic pottery of this group in the Cycladic islands and the mainland, and detailed analysis of the ceramic forms and features first appearing in this phase, show the ‘Kastri group’ pottery to occur, as a rule, with forms of EB 2. It is also shown that either this pottery itself, or certain forms with which it occurs, present features heralding EB 3. It is thus proposed that the ‘Kastri group’ constitutes a transitional phase of apparently short duration, intermediate between EB 2 and 3, overlapping in date with both the last stages of the former and the early stages of the latter and ‘bridging’ these two periods.

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Early Cycladic Pottery from Akrotiri on Thera and its Chronological Implications

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Chronology of Greece and South-east Europe in the Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

Chronology of Greece and South-east Europe in the Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

Minoanisation in the Middle Bronze Age: Evaluating the Role of Cycladic Producers and Consumers

The chronology of the ‘Kastri group’ reconsidered

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