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Modern Description: The Bronze Age town at Aghia Irini was preceded on the island by an earlier settlement of the Late Neolithic period on the peninsula of Képhala at the most northwesterly point of the island. (Reached by taking the track uphill and inland from the coast-road at Aghia Irini, bearing to the right past some lurid luxury developments, and continuing by foot over the hill to the promontory.) The most important finds have come from the cemetery of 40 or so small circular graves—one of the earliest examples in the islands of a well-organised cemetery—at the foot of the south-facing slope of the head of the peninsula, as it joins the isthmus. The settlement was founded around 3300 BC, but appears to have been abandoned within little more than 100 years, at which point the centre of habitation on the island moved to Aghia Irini.
Trismegistos Geo: 16076

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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