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SESKLO (Village) VOLOS
Region: Magnesia
Periods: Neolithic, Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze
Age
Type: Settlement
Summary: Defining site for Thessalian Middle Neolithic cultural
phase.
Physical Description:
Ca. 15 km SW of Volos on a low mound. The Middle Neolithic
settlement was a village of closely grouped houses around a central larger megaron
type building with a paved courtyard. A village fortification wall has been suggested,
but is not certain. Larger and less cramped houses occupied the area below the
mound.
Description:
The low mound of Sesklo, which sits in the fork of 2 small
gullies is ca 100 by 45 m in area. The prehistoric deposits which vary from 3
to 6 m in depth indicate occupation through all of the prehistoric periods, from
the earliest phase of the Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age. The earliest
settlement at Sesklo may have had a fortification wall, but the evidence is indefinite
(some traces of an unusually thick wall are found at the E end of the site). The
houses of the 1st settlement were built of wattle and daub on wooden frame in
rectangular plan. Houses with and without stone foundations are known. In the
2nd period, the main phase of the Thessalian Middle Neolithic, the same construction
methods are used and evidence for fortification of the settlement is stronger,
but still inconclusive. One large building of megaron type appears. The Middle
Neolithic is the major period of the site and is characterized by the distinctive
Sesklo pottery. The Middle Neolithic settlement was destroyed by fire and a 500
year hiatus in occupation followed before the site was reoccupied in the Late
Neolithic. After the Middle Neolithic the remains from Sesklo are meager and unimportant.
Exploration:
Excavations: 1901-02, C. Tsountas; 1956-7, 1962-8, 1971-6,
D. Theocharis.
Donald R. Keller, ed.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains 19 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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