Ancient Greece and the Aegean: Communities, Cities, and Connected Worlds
Cyclades and central Aegean maritime networks · Profil avec revue des sources

Keros and Early Cycladic island networks

Dhaskalio and Kavos on Keros

Deposits of deliberately fragmented objects, monumental building, imported stone, craft production, agriculture, and maritime access place Keros within sustained Cycladic networks. Ritual, gathering, power, and production remain evidence-led interpretations rather than proof of a unified island nation.

Early Bronze Age island-network and gathering context c. 2750-2300 BCE Excavation, deposits, architecture, craft debris, botanical remains, digital recording, provenance study, and island landscape archaeology Dhaskalio and Kavos on Keros; an archaeological gathering and settlement context rather than a Cycladic capital or territorial center
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Éléments probants, échelle communautaire, organisation politique et transformation

Paysages égéens et régions connectées

Small islands, sea passages, agricultural plots, quarries, landing places, and exchange routes connected Keros with varied Cycladic communities.

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

Organized building, production, provisioning, and repeated gatherings imply coordination and unequal access, but no named ruler, unified Cycladic government, or fixed political territory is known.

Transformation impériale et réception ultérieure

Keros is an archaeological landscape under Greek heritage stewardship; its evidence cannot establish modern island identity, ancestry, or territorial rights.

Reference point Dhaskalio/Keros

A maritime archaeological context, not an island capital.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S3]
Evidence caution Context affected by looting

Controlled excavation and publication distinguish secure deposits from displaced material.

Current research [S1] [S2]
Network scale Pan-Cycladic connections

Shared participation did not erase distinct island communities.

c. 2750-2300 BCE [S1] [S2]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.

  1. Gathering practices become visible

    Special deposits and repeated visits connected communities across the Cyclades.

  2. Dhaskalio building intensifies

    Monumental construction and imported materials reshaped the islet and its causeway setting.

  3. Craft and provisioning concentrate

    Metalworking, food production, and other activities indicate organized labor within wider networks.

  4. Intensive use changes

    The excavated sequence contracts without demonstrating the disappearance of one homogeneous people.

Culture et langue

Foyers, subsistance, travail, écriture, rituales, mobilité et échange

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • No locally written language corpus
  • Maritime material networks do not identify a spoken language

Famille linguistique: Unknown from archaeological classification

Maritime movement brought people and materials to a small island setting.

Special deposits require careful reconstruction because early looting damaged context.

Building and craft evidence show coordination without a known nation-state.

Palaces, monumental sanctuaries, public inscriptions, elite burials, citizen institutions, and transmitted literary canons are unequal samples. Farmers, fishers, craftspeople, women, children, enslaved people, helots, perioikoi, metics, migrants, rural communities, and most spoken languages are less consistently visible.

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Revisión editorial: 4 août 2026