Topography - the site and the sea
The site of Priniatikos Pyrgos today is a
small limestone headland projecting into a sheltered bay in the Gulf of Mirabello, flanked by beaches to the east and west. Sea-level changes over the millennia mean that the aspect of the site we see today is not the way things have always been, as throughout much of prehistory the coastline was further out past the tip of the modern headland, revealing the site as a hillock just inland from the sea. This revelation, along with further work of the Istron Geoarchaeological Project tells us that the site we look at today has seen great environmental change since the first humans arrived in this area. By late antiquity, rising sea-levels had left Priniatikos Pyrgos exposed as the headland we see today, and the remains of walls of long since collapsed buildings can be seen in the seas all around the site.
Priniatikos Pyrgos site location looking from the north
Priniatikos Pyrgos from Vrokastro, to the southeast
Priniatikos Pyrgos from the southwest |
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