Area 16

Main Information

Area ID	16
Site	Athens
Area type	cemetery or grave
Area NR
Period	Central and Southern Greece, Cyclades/Alram-Stern 1996: Chalcolithic/Final Neolithic Central and Southern Greece, Cyclades/Alram-Stern 1996: Chalcolithic/Final Neolithic (Late)
Dating method	material culture
Radiocarbon dated	no
Earliest date: Lab Number
Earliest date: 14C age (BP)
Earliest date: Calibration	None
Earliest date: 14C age calibrated (BC)
Earliest date: Date of calibration	None
Earliest date: Standard deviation	None
Earliest date: Delta 13C	None
Earliest date: Dated by
Latest date: Lab Number
Latest date: 14C age (BP)
Latest date: Calibration	None
Latest date: 14C age calibrated (BC)
Latest date: Date of calibration	None
Latest date: Standard deviation	None
Latest date: Delta 13C	None
Latest date: Dated by
Period Reference	Immerwahr S.A., The earliest Athenian grave, 1982, Princeton
Comment	The sceleton remains and the two pots date the grave to the final neolithic.
Settlement type	None
Settlement structure
Settlement building type
Settlement building shape
Settlement building technique
Settlement archaeological features
Cave/rockshelters type	None
Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of graves/human remains
Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of occupation
Quarry exploitation type	None
Quarry raw material
Cemetery/graves topography
Cemetery/graves mortuary features
Grave: number of graves	1
Grave type	shaft grave
Grave: type of human remains
Grave: estimated number of individuals
Grave: age groups
Grave: sexes
Grave: number of female sex	None
Grave: number of male sex	None
Grave: number of not specified sex	None
Grave: disturbance of graves
Description	The grave construction has its earliest parallels in Early Bronze age, but it also corresponds to the neolithic wells at the northeast side of the Akropolis.
Comment

Location of the Site

Bibliography

Reference	Walter P., Shaft-chambered tombs of the fourth millenium B.C. in the Mediterranean, 1988, Immerwahr S.A., The earliest Athenian grave, 1982, Princeton Alram-Stern, Eva, Die Ägäische Frühzeit, 2. Serie, Forschungsbericht 1975–1993, 1. Band. Das Neolithikum in Griechenland mit Ausnahme von Kreta und Zypern, 1996, Wien

Finds in this Area

Finds	ID 32 pottery Bowl