Κέρος: Το Δασκαλειό και ο Κάβος
Πρώιμο κυκλαδικό ιερό
και τελετουργικό κέντρο
Keros: Dhaskalio and Kavos, early Cycladic
Stronghold and Ritual Centre(*)
Των Colin
Renfrew, Olga Philaniotou, Neil Brodie, Giorgos Gavalas
Abstract
The excavations of the Cambridge Keros Project at early bronze age
Dhaskalio and Dhaskalio Kavos on the Cycladic Island of Keros during the 2006
and 2007 seasons are described. They were directed by Colin Renfrew with Olga
Philaniotou as Associate Director and Neil Brodie and Giorgos Gavalas as
Assistant Directors. The site of Dhaskalio Kavos is well-known for the
extensive looting which took place there during the 1950's. Rescue excavations
by Christos Doumas in 1963 and by Photeini Zapheiropoulou in 1967, and a
project in 1987, directed by Renfrew, Doumas and Lila Marangou, defined the extent
of the looted ‘special deposit’, assigned to the early bronze age Keros-Syros
culture (Early Bronze II). At the beginning of the 2006 field season a separate
and unlooted special deposit was located at the southern end of the Kavos site
(the ‘Special Deposit South’). Its excavation yielded thousands of fragments of
marble vessels and potsherds, and hundreds of broken marble figurines. These
had been deliberately broken elsewhere, brought to the site and deposited there
in what appears to be a ritual context. Work on the Special Deposit South
continued in 2007, and excavations on the extensive Early Cycladic settlement
on the small (200 metre) but precipitous island of Dhaskalio were initiated.
Well preserved building remains were uncovered with abundant Early Cycladic
domestic materials.
Dhaskalio island may now be recognised as a major settlement of the
Keros-Syros culture (c. 2800 to 2300 BC). Kavos, immediately opposite on Keros
itself, is confirmed as the locus for two separate areas of structured
deposition of high status materials, brought from a wide range of sources in
the Cyclades and possibly beyond, apparently already in fragmentary condition,
and placed there in a series of prestations for which a ritual context may
safely be inferred. Dhaskalio Kavos may now be claimed as the first major
symbolic centre of the early Aegean.
(*) Preliminary Report of 2006 and 2007 seasons.
Published online: 1.9.2013.
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