The early Cycladic settlement at Dhaskalio, Keros: preliminary report of the 2008 excavation season

Renfrew, C., Philanotiou, O., Brodie, N. and Gavalas, G. (2009) The early Cycladic settlement at Dhaskalio, Keros: preliminary report of the 2008 excavation season. Annual of the British School at Athens, 104, pp. 27-47. (doi: 10.1017/S0068245400000198)

Abstract

The 2008 excavations on the small island of Dhaskalio opposite Dhaskalio Kavos on the Cycladic island of Keros are reviewed. An account is given of the survey, recording many walls of the early Bronze Age, and of the excavations, continued from the 2007 season. Excavations at the summit of Dhaskalio revealed a substantial building 16 m long and 4 m wide, within which was discovered the ‘Dhaskalio hoard’ comprising a chisel, an axe-adze, and a shaft-hole axe of copper or bronze. Study of the pottery reveals continuity, within which a sequence of three phases within the Early Cycladic II and III periods can be established. Excavations were continued and concluded within the Special Deposit at Kavos South with the recovery of many more special but fragmentary materials including marble vessels and figurines. Specialist studies for the geomorphology, geology, petrology, ceramic petrology, metallurgy and environmental aspects (botanical and faunal remains, phytoliths) are in progress. No more fieldwork is planned prior to final publication of the 2006 to 2008 seasons.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Brodie, Dr Neil
• Authors: Renfrew, C., Philanotiou, O., Brodie, N., and Gavalas, G.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
• Journal Name: Annual of the British School at Athens
• Publisher: British School at Athens
• ISSN: 0068-2454
• ISSN (Online): 2045-2403
• Published Online: 10 June 2011
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2009 Cambridge University Press
• First Published: First published in Annual of the British School at Athens 104:27-47
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher