Ayioryitika

The 1928 Excavations of Carl Blegen at a Neolithic to Early Helladic Settlement in Arcadia

by Susan L. Petrakis

Book cover: Ayioryitika

Extent: 152 pages

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Subjects: European Prehistory, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Prehistory Monographs

Series volume number: 3

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(August 2002)

ISBN: 9781931534024

Price: $95.00

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(PDF) (Published)

(August 2002)

ISBN: 9781623031022

Price: $76.00

Ayioryitika, a large settlement in Arcadia in central Greece, is particularly important for its beautifully decorated Middle Neolithic pottery and for its figurines of human figures and animals. Excavated in 1928 by Carl Blegen, the research was never published.This volume provides the fragmentary evidence for the excavation and its finds.


Ayioryitika, a large open-air settlement in Arcadia, in central Greece, was inhabited during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. It was excavated in 1928 by Carl Blegen under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, but the research was never published. The site is particularly important for its beautifully decorated Middle Neolithic pottery and for its figurines of human figures and animals. This volume gathers together the scattered and fragmentary evidence for the excavation and its finds. For the first time, the information from this large and important early town has been made available to scholars and students of prehistoric Greece.

  • By (author) Susan L. Petrakis