ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΗ ΑΜΟΡΓΟΥ / Markiani, Amorgos : An Early Bronze Age Fortified Settlement : Overview of the 1985-1991 Investigations

by: Marangou, L. Renfrew, C. Doumas, Chr.G. Gavalas, G.

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Markianē Amorgou = Markiani, Amorgos : an Early Bronze Age fortified settlement : overview of the 1985-1991 investigations
Authors:Lila Marankou, Anastasia Angelopoulou, Neil Brodie, British School at Athens
Summary:Markiani in Amorgos is the first rural settlement of the Early Cycladic period to be excavated systematically and published comprehensively. Most of our knowledge of the Cycladic islands of Greece in the third millennium BC comes from the well-known Cycladic cemeteries, with their fine decorated pottery, marble vessels and striking marble figurines. Early Cycladic remains also underlie the proto-urban trading centres of the Aegean Bronze Age, such as Phylakopi on Melos or Ayia Irini on Kea. Now, for the first time, we glimpse the life of a country farming community with its rural crafts, including spinning and probably weaving and metallurgy. The stratified culture sequence, with its radiocarbon chronology, documents clearly a thousand years of peasant life in this rather isolated island community. The site, overlooking the sea on the south coast of Amorgos, was already fortified towards the beginning of the Bronze Age. The abundant finds contrast strikingly with the elite products recovered from the Cycladic cemeteries. The abundant pottery is local and undecorated. There is a full repertoire of tools and artefacts of stone and bone, and the metal finds include a lead seal, an indication (with the clay sealings) of some organisation in production and exchange already in this modest community. Written by an internationally recognised team of Greek and British scholars, and with its clear documentation and abundant drawings and photographs, this volume establishes a new direction in the study of Cycladic prehistory. It should become an indispensable work of reference for every archaeological library.

Series:
Supplementary volume (British School at Athens), no. 40

xvi, 296 pages, 56 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 31 cm.

Subjects:
Amorgos (Greece : Municipality) Antiquities
Antiquities
Bronze age
Bronze age Greece Markiani Site
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology) Greece Amorgos (Municipality)
Établissements humains Grèce Markiani (Site archéologique)
Greece Amorgos (Municipality)
Greece Markiani Site
Human settlements
Human settlements Greece Markiani Site
Markiani (Grèce : Site archéologique)
Markiani Site (Greece)

ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΗ ΑΜΟΡΓΟΥ / Markiani, Amorgos : An Early Bronze Age Fortified Settlement : Overview of the 1985-1991 Investigations

by: Marangou, L. Renfrew, C. Doumas, Chr.G. Gavalas, G.

• ISBN-13: 9780904887525 / 978-0-904887-52-5
• ISBN-03: 0904887529 / 0-904887-52-9
• The British School at Athens, London, 2006

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