A Forgotten Island: Kalymnos in the Late Neolithic Period

Though largely spoiled by later occupation, the LB I deposit in the Daskalio cave at vathy on Kalymnos strongly suggests that during that period the cave was a cult place. In addition to at least two objects with strong religious connotations, the deposit includes fine minoan rhyta, pouring and drinking (mainly conical cups) vessels, miniature pots, storage jars, stands and/or tube vessels, cooking vessels, fireboxes, and loom weights. Like many sacred caves on crete, the Vathy cave has impressive stalagmites and a pond, which at one time collected drinkable water.

Quaternary International 584, p.129-140, 2021

Since the excavations at Franchthi Cave in the 1960s and 1970s, the possibility of finding a submerged Neolithic site in the Bay of Kiladha has been discussed. Initial research, based on marine geophysical survey and core sampling, brought contrasted results. Starting in 2012, new parts of the Bay were investigated, using different techniques and improved methods, such as geological-geophysical survey, further core sampling (including the finding of artefacts and anthropogenic indicators of a given date in the cores), shallow water ERT (with an adapted methodology), and underwater excavation. The combined evidence leads to a reconsideration of previous work, to the discovery of submerged structures directly off the cave, which might well be Neolithic walls, and points to the existence of two new submerged sites, one dating to the Neolithic, in the middle of the Bay, and the other to the Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age I, at Lambayanna. The implications of these findings are discussed as well.

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022

PAST- The Newsletter of the prehistoric society, 2021

Ashes to ashes: a remarkable Early Bronze Age cremation burial from Doveridge, Derbyshire A team from Wessex Archaeology uncovered a hithertounknown barrow on the edge of Doveridge, Derbyshire (NGR 41229 33403) during housing construction in 2017-8. Doveridge lies on the southwestern limit of the Derbyshire uplands and overlooks the River Dove, which connects the limestone uplands of the 'White Peak' to the Trent Valley, both areas being rich in barrows. The monument had been obscured beneath ridge and furrow earthworks and badly affected by consequent plough truncation. Nevertheless, a 22 m diameter ring ditch survived; this was best preserved on its northern and southern sides, where it was 2.3 m wide by 0.5 m deep. The stony, gravelly barrow mound (10 m diameter and up to 0.3 m thick), presumably built from upcast from the ditch excavation, was similarly poorly preserved and difficult to define against the underlying substrate. The remains of six cremation burials, one urned and five unurned, lay within the confines of the ring ditch; all but one grave occupied the southeastern quadrant of the area described by the ditch and had clearly been covered by the barrow mound. Radiocarbon dates on bone samples from the remains of the urned burial-made in an inverted Collared Urn-and three of the unurned burials all fall within a central Early Bronze Age range (1950-1680 cal BC). The urned burial remains, which were block lifted for micro-excavation by the osteoarchaeologist (McKinley), are described here. Left: Collared Urn in situ during excavation. Right: Computed Tomography (CT) scan of the urned burial remains showing the distribution of the bone within the two 'packages', location of the bone pommel fragments and the void within the inverted base