Kakovatos. G. Chatzi-Spiliopoulou (Ζ’ ΕΠΚΑ) and B. Eder (Freiburg/DAI) report on the 2011 excavation season. It was established that the large building on the hilltop excavated in 2010 (fig. 1) was destroyed by fire in LH IIB. A pit along the south wall contained sherds of an Ephyraean goblet (fig. 2) deposited with other vessels before the final fire. This pit held a large pithos and fed into an overflow channel leading to the southwest of the building. West of the channel, a narrow...

Kakovatos. B. Eder (DAI/Freiburg) reports on the 2010 excavation season at the Late Bronze Age settlement on the acropolis, the graves of which were revealed in earlier excavations conducted by W. Dörpfeld. The aim of the excavation is to clarify the plan, function and date of the preserved architectural remains, partially exposed in 1907/08 but never published. At the western edge of the hill crest, two walls formed a corner, inside which a pebble layer was traced in several places,...

Kakovatos. B. Eder (DAI/Freiburg) reports on the first season of renewed fieldwork in 2009, to investigate the spatial extent, building types and chronological span of the Mycenaean settlement on the so-called acropolis (Fig. 1). A geodetic study produced a topographic plan of the Kakovatos area and a terrain model of the archaeological zone (Fig. 2). Geophysical survey aimed both to find evidence for ancient structures and to trace the areas excavated by Dörpfeld in 1907−1908. A...