Lefkandi
Lefkandi(see map: Greece and the Aegean world), a coastal site (ancient name unknown) on the island of Euboea (off central Greece's east coast) between Chalcis and Eretria. Inhabited from the early bronze age until its desertion c.700 BC, perhaps following the Lelantine War (see Greece, history, archaic age), it flourished in the late Helladic IIIC period. During the Dark Ages Lefkandi was an important centre in a region uniting Euboea, Thessaly, east central Greece, and the Aegean island of Scyros. Cemeteries spanning the 11th to 9th cents. have revealed significant wealth and, from c.950 BC, abundant evidence for contact with Cyprus and the Levant. A unique, massive apsidal building (almost 50 14 m. (164 × 46 ft.); c.1000 BC), with external and internal colonnades supporting a steep raking roof, represents a...
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