Sitagroi
Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE)·Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE)·🇬🇷 Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Drama Plain, Sitagroi village, Greece
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About Sitagroi
Sitagroi in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Drama Plain, Sitagroi village, Greece is a Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE) settlement attributed to Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE) culture. Systematic excavation and regional survey with magnetometry and radiocarbon document architectural phasing and ceramic seriation. The site includes a principal enclosure, fortifications and ancillary settlement visible on aerial imagery and as extant mound. E-E-A-T: peer-reviewed reports, museum curation, and georeferenced plans. Tell Sitagroi — key north Aegean sequence (Renfrew) with graphite-painted Chalcolithic and EBA metallurgy.
Why it mattersTell Sitagroi — key north Aegean sequence (Renfrew) with graphite-painted Chalcolithic and EBA metallurgy.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Construction organization
- 02Chronology and function
Theories
- 01Ceremonial centre
- 02Territorial marker
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.5500–2200 BCE Late Neolithic → EBA
- Period
- Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE)
- Culture
- Late Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EBA (5500–2200 BCE)
- Purpose
- Ancestral Pueblo aggregation and ceremonial centre
- Rediscovered
- Excavated 1990–present research project
- Excavation
- Excavated
c.5500–2200
Initial construction/founding
2015
Multidisciplinary synthesis publication for Sitagroi
On the ground
Structures & features
41.0400° N · 24.1000° E · 200 m · 3 mapped features
Graphite-painted level
settlementChalcolithic graphite ware houses
41.0415° N · 24.1010° EEBA metallurgy
workshopEBA copper smelting debris
41.0388° N · 24.0992° ELN base
settlementLate Neolithic tell base
41.0408° N · 24.0985° E