Chalandriani

Chalandriani is a major Early Bronze Age cemetery on the Cycladic island of Syros in Greece, a little way to the south of the fortified prehistoric settlement of Kastri [1]. Most of the tombs at Chalandriani were constructed before the settlement of Kastri was first inhabited [1]. Among the grave goods discovered at Chalandriani are "frying pans", several of which are decorated with longboat motifs almost unknown from other sites [1]. Unlike most Early Cycladic tombs, which are not generally oriented to the compass in a consistent manner, the tombs at Chalandriani all faced between northwest and northeast [1]. Between 1898 and 1899, Christos Tsountas excavated the cemetery of Chalandriani and the settlement of Kastri on behalf of the Archaeological Society of Athens [1]. The American archaeologist John Caskey visited Chalandriani in the early 1960s, correctly dating the cemetery to the Early Cycladic II period [1].