Markiani ( el, Μαρκιανή) is a
Bronze Age fortified settlement built on top of a hill in the island of
Amorgos in
Greece.
[L. Marangou, C. Renfrew, C. Doumas and G. Gavalas (eds), ''Markiani, Amorgos: An Early Bronze Age Fortified Settlement. Overview of the 1985-1991 Investigations'', British School at Athens Supplementary vol. 40, 2006.]
Signs of early
Cycladic habitation at Markiani span a period of ten centuries, dating from the
Grotta-Pelos culture
The Grotta-Pelos culture ( el, Γρόττα-Πηλός) refers to a "cultural" dating system used for part of the early Bronze Age in Greece.Eric H. Cline (ed.), ''The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean'', , Jan. 2012. Specifically, it is ...
to the
Kastri culture phases (ca. 3200-2200 BC). The site has also been inhabited at latter times during the
Hellenistic
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...
and
Roman period
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Roman Republic, Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings aro ...
s.
See also
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History of the Cyclades
The Cyclades (Greek: Κυκλάδες ''Kykládes'') are Greek islands located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea. The archipelago contains some 2,200 islands, islets and rocks; just 33 islands are inhabited. For the ancients, they formed a ci ...
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Cycladic art
External links
Μαρκιανή Αμοργού
References
Cycladic civilization
Bronze Age sites in Greece
Archaeological sites on the Aegean Islands
Amorgos
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