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Pediaios valley near Akaki and Peristerona: American geoarchaeological survey (1999)

1999 · Akaki

Also known as Vallée de Pédiaios (Prospection américaine)

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Where the work took place

  • Main site
  • Also worked at
  • Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Sites

  1. 1Akaki (approx.)
  2. 2Peristerona (approx.)
Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

Directors and team

Team

Institutions

Seasons

1 season
  1. 1999

    Survey of four tributaries of the Pediaios valley near Akaki and Peristerona, to study Holocene geomorphological change and dating of geological layers. Most material came from the Likythia tributary, especially around Achera. A new road cut at Achera showed stratified Iron Age and Bronze Age levels with plaster floors and an ash pit; site area about 14 ha, layers at least 2 m thick. Pottery: Bronze Age white ware, archaic black-on-red, pithoi, cooking pots and terracotta figurines. A second Likythia-area site yielded mainly Roman, medieval and Ottoman pottery.

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What was found

Periods

Features and finds

Likythia tributary; Achera road cut section; Achera settlement (c. 14 ha).

Publications

1 item

Chronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)

Related

Other fieldwork at Akaki · 1

Sources

  1. 1.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1999, p. 692.

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