Kiladha - 2020
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
13074
Année de l'opération
2020
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
École suisse d'archéologie en Grèce (ESAG) (École suisse d'archéologie en Grèce)
Εφορεία Εναλίων Αρχαιοτήτων (Éphorie des antiquités sous-marines)
Localisation
Toponyme
Koilados Ormos
Koilados Ormos
Notices et opérations liées
Description
Kiladha. J. Beck (ESAG / University of Geneva) and Andreas Sotiriou (Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities) report on the 2020 season of research undertaken around the Bay of Kiladha in the southern Argolid.
Survey was conducted to try and locate submerged gorges, created by the inflow of currents to caves in the area. Unfortunately, poor visibility meant that these features could not be recorded completely, despite using both close measurements and sonar scanning of possible structures.
Work was also conducted in the bay, in the area of Lambayanna, a few hundred metres N of Franchthi Cave. Stone foundations of walls and buildings were first identified in 2016 on the seabed, the remains of a coastal settlement dating to the beginning of the Bronze Age. Now an area of almost 1.2 hectares has been surveyed and, in addition, various measurements from previous seasons were checked in 2020.
Excavations were conducted in the bay, yielding pottery, stone objects and animal bones. Three weeks of the 2020 season were also used for the study of pottery and stone tools collected from 2015 to 2017. New finds indicate that there was habitation in the area much earlier than the Early Bronze Age. The use of limestone in many of the phases earlier than the visible archaeological remains came as a particular surprise.
Survey was conducted to try and locate submerged gorges, created by the inflow of currents to caves in the area. Unfortunately, poor visibility meant that these features could not be recorded completely, despite using both close measurements and sonar scanning of possible structures.
Work was also conducted in the bay, in the area of Lambayanna, a few hundred metres N of Franchthi Cave. Stone foundations of walls and buildings were first identified in 2016 on the seabed, the remains of a coastal settlement dating to the beginning of the Bronze Age. Now an area of almost 1.2 hectares has been surveyed and, in addition, various measurements from previous seasons were checked in 2020.
Excavations were conducted in the bay, yielding pottery, stone objects and animal bones. Three weeks of the 2020 season were also used for the study of pottery and stone tools collected from 2015 to 2017. New finds indicate that there was habitation in the area much earlier than the Early Bronze Age. The use of limestone in many of the phases earlier than the visible archaeological remains came as a particular surprise.
Auteur de la notice
Michael Loy
Références bibliographiques
Unpublished field report, ESAG
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Date de création
2021-06-28 17:27:21
Dernière modification
2021-06-28 17:27:43
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Bay of Kiladha (Argolid)
Fig. 2/ Underwater exploration on features of the prehistoric landscape
Fig. 3/ Underwater exploration on features of the prehistoric landscape