Kerame

The archaeological site of Kerame ( Greek Κεραμέ ( n. Sg. )) Is located on the east Aegean island of Ikaria . The finds are in the late Mesolithic in the first half of the 9th millennium BC. Chr. Dated.

location

Kerame is located on the coast about 6.5 km northeast of Agios Kirykos in the immediate vicinity of the road to Faros and the island's airport. The 5000–6000 m² site is located on a flat tongue of land that slopes gently towards the sea . Intensive viticulture was practiced in the area until the middle of the 20th century. Partly retaining walls of up to five terraces have been preserved.

Archaeological excavation

The site was identified in 2004 and a three-week excavation began in 2007 by the University of the Aegean and the University of Athens under the direction of Adamantios Sampson . The area was examined in ten sections, most of them near the sea. Numerous tools made from local quartz , flint presumably from Samos and obsidian from Milos were found. The earliest use of obsidian from Gyali was documented in Kerame . The ceramics are very similar to Kythnos from the beginning of the 9th millennium BC. BC, younger ceramics could not be proven so far, architectural remains are missing.

meaning

So far, Kerame is the oldest site in the eastern Aegean and the nearby coast of Asia Minor . The similarities between stone processing and ceramics show Aegean-wide contacts as early as the Mesolithic. After Maroulas on the Cycladic island of Kythnos , Kerame is the second outdoor site of this period on an Aegean island.

Web links

Ανασκαφικές Δραστηριότητες, ΚΕΡΑΜΕ - Ικαρία 2007 ( memento from January 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Greek; a deep link to the 2007 excavation is no longer available)

Individual evidence

↑ Adamantios Sampson, Małgorzata Kaczanowska, Janusz K. Kozłowski, Constantin Athanassas, Yannis Bassiakos, Ioannis Liritzis, Nicolaos Laskaris, Irena Tsermegas: Mesolithic Occupations and Environments on the Island of Ikaria, Aegean, Greece. In: Folia Quaternaria. The journal of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. 80.1 (2013), ISSN 0015-573X , pp. 5–86 ( pau.krakow.pl [PDF; 3.2 MB]).
^ Mercourios Georgiadis: The Obsidian in the Aegean beyond Melos: An outlook from Yali . In: Oxford Journal of Archeology . tape 27 , no. 2 , 2008, ISSN 0262-5253 , p. 101–117 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1468-0092.2008.00299.x .

37.660586 26.3401186Coordinates: 37 ° 39 ′ 38.1 ″ N , 26 ° 20 ′ 24.4 ″ E

[1] Adamantios Sampson, Małgorzata Kaczanowska, Janusz K. Kozłowski, Constantin Athanassas, Yannis Bassiakos, Ioannis Liritzis, Nicolaos Laskaris, Irena Tsermegas: Mesolithic Occupations and Environments on the Island of Ikaria, Aegean, Greece. In: Folia Quaternaria. The journal of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. 80.1 (2013), ISSN 0015-573X , pp. 5–86 ( pau.krakow.pl [PDF; 3.2 MB]).

[2] Mercourios Georgiadis: The Obsidian in the Aegean beyond Melos: An outlook from Yali . In: Oxford Journal of Archeology . tape 27 , no. 2 , 2008, ISSN 0262-5253 , p. 101–117 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1468-0092.2008.00299.x .