Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. 17, No 1, (2017), pp. 271-285 Copyright © 2017 MAA Open Access. Printed in Greece. All rights reserved. 10.5281/zenodo.163772 AT-RISK CULTURAL HERITAGE: NEW EXCAVATIONS AND FINDS FROM THE MYCENAEAN SITE OF KASTROULI, PHOKIS, GREECE Athanasios Sideris1, 2, Ioannis Liritzis1 , Βrady Liss3,5, Matthew D. Howland3,5, Thomas E. Levy3,4,5 1 University of the Aegean, Lab of Archaeometry & Lab of Environmental Archaeology, Dept. of Mediterranean Studies, Rhodes, Greece 2 Thrace Foundation, Sofia 3 Center for Cyber-Archaeology and Sustainability, UCSD 4 Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, UCSD 5 University of California, San Diego, USA Received: 15/03/2017 Accepted: 05/04/2017 Corresponding author:
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[email protected] ABSTRACT The paper presents the excavations of 2016 season at the Mycenaean site of Kastrouli, Phokis. The site has been looted in the past decades and excavated in a very limited scale by the Archaeological Service. It is lo- cated on the top of a rocky hill and delimited by a fortification wall, probably constructed in two phases, the earliest of which could be Mycenaean. A hybrid rock-cut and built chamber tomb, excavated at the west- ernmost part of the fortified area, contained an undisturbed commingled burial of at least fifteen individuals. The main pottery shape is the stirrup jar, and the small finds include Phi and Psi figurines, steatite beads, and fragments of gold foil. The period of the original use of the tomb falls between the LH IIIA 2 and the LH IIIC Early or Advanced.