The dating of the Late Phylakopi I as evidenced at Akrotiri on Thera

Abstract

The dating of the Late Phylakopi I (I-ii/iii) has recently been debated warmly among bronze age specialists. The typological correlations in two sealed contexts of Early Cycladic pottery at Akrotiri show Phylakopi I-ii to overlap with the ‘Kastri’ phase and the ‘Amorgos’ group, and thus to follow EC II without interruption and to date to the early part of EC III. Phylakopi I-iii thus belongs to the later part of EC III, though elsewhere it also seems to overlap with the early Middle Bronze Age. These chronological equations appear valid for Phylakopi and Akrotiri but are not to be considered as applying to all Cycladic sites: at Ayia Irini IV and the Phrourion of Paroikia on Paros the situation seems to be different.

Perspectives on an Early Bronze Age Island Centre: An Analysis of Pottery from Daskaleio‐Kavos (Keros) in the Cyclades

“…Those closest to Daskaleio-Kavos are Panermos (Doumas 1964: 411-2;Karantzali 1996: 24-6), Spedos (Papathanasopoulos 1961/2) and the Zas cave (Zachos 1994) on Naxos, Markiani on Amorgos (Marangou 1994: 470-71;Davis 1992: 752-3;French & Whitelaw 1999) and slightly more distant Skarkos on the non-facing, western, side of Ios (Marthari 1997(Marthari , 1999. Longer-range comparisons can be drawn with the pottery assemblages of Agia Irini on Kea (Wilson 1999), Akrotiri on Thera (Sotirakopoulou 1986(Sotirakopoulou , 1990(Sotirakopoulou , 1993(Sotirakopoulou , 1996, Mt Kynthos on Delos (MacGillivray 1980), Phylakopi on Melos (Evans & Renfrew 1984) and soon, it is to be hoped, in enhanced detail with Chalandriani-Kastri on Syros (Marthari 1998 for new work at this long-known and important site). Despite this potential, however, available information about the pottery of Daskaleio-Kavos has remained to date limited to brief reports by the first visitors and excavators (Doumas 1964, Renfrew 1972Zapheiropoulou 1968a), and the subsequent illustration of a few of the decorated pieces (Zapheiropoulou 1975).…”