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Radiocarbon Dating of Aghios Antonios, Potos, and Intersite Chronological Variability in South Thasos, Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2016

Yannis Maniatis ,
Nerantzis Nerantzis  and
Stratis Papadopoulos
Yannis Maniatis*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Archaeometry, N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos,’ 153 10 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece
Nerantzis Nerantzis
Affiliation:
Ephorate of Antiquities, Rhodope, Archaeological Museum of Komotini, Symeonidi 4, 69100 Komotini, Greece
Stratis Papadopoulos
Affiliation:
Archaeological Museum of Kavala, 17 Erythrou Stavrou, 65110 Kavala, Greece
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

Radiocarbon dates obtained for the coastal hilltop settlement of Aghios Antonios Potos in south Thasos are statistically treated to define the absolute chronology for the start and the end of the various habitation and cultural phases at the site. The location was first occupied during the Final Neolithic (FN) between 3800 and 3600 BC, extending this much contested phase to the lowest up to now record for Thasos and the northern Greece. The site is continuously inhabited from Early Bronze Age I until the early Late Bronze Age (LBA; 1363 BC) when it was abandoned. Comparison with other sites in Thasos and particularly with the inland site of Kastri Theologos showed that the first occupation at Aghios Antonios came soon after the abandonment of Kastri in the beginning of the 4th millennium. In fact, after the decline and abandonment of Aghios Antonios in the LBA, the site of Kastri was reinhabited, leading to the hypothesis that part of the coastal population moved inland. The presumed chronological sequence of alternate habitation between the two settlements may evoke explanations for sociocultural and/or environmental dynamics behind population movements in prehistoric Thasos. A major conclusion of the project is that the 4th millennium occupation gap attested in many sites of Greece, especially in the north, is probably bridged in south Thasos, when the data from all sites are taken together. The mobility of people in Final Neolithic south Thasos may explain the general phenomenon of limited occupational sequences in the FN of north Greece.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 57 , Issue 5 , 2015 , pp. 807 - 823
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