The Prehistoric Settlement by Lake Vouliagmeni, Perachora

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Abstract
A Survey carried out in 1964 revealed that this site, briefly reported by Payne as ‘a very small village doubtless inhabited by fishermen’, was more extensive than had been realized. It covers the flatter ground on the low ridge that separates lake from sea, for a length of 570 m. and a maximum width of 100 m. or so. The canal connecting the lake with the sea cuts through the middle of the site and gives a good cross-section of its stratification. There seems to have been some fluctuation in the lake level since prehistoric times, for sherds and traces of walling can be observed in the hardened limestone concretions beneath the present lake's surface. In 1965 a trial trench 2 m. × 16 m. was opened, almost parallel to the canal and running inland from a point 39 m. to the west of the canal's entrance to the lake. This trench was not taken down to the earliest occupation levels. Four phases of occupation were revealed (Fig. 1), the last being of the seventh century B.C. The other three, all of the Early Helladic period, are designated ‘X’, ‘Y’, and ‘Z’, X being the earliest yet reached. There is absolutely no trace of subsequent occupation until the seventh century B.C., the remains of which occur directly above those of the latest E.H. level.

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