A Light in the Wine Dark Sea: Three Historic Lighthouses Near Milos (Greece)

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In the course of the 2022 season of the Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP), team members documented three stone-built lighthouses in the Milos-Kimolos vicinity; two on the islets of Agios Efstathios and Mikri Akradia, and another on the island of Polyaigos. The three lighthouses, originally built in the 1890s and renovated in the first years after WWII, are currently in varying states of preservation and maintenance. Although not unknown to the public or absent from the literature, the three lighthouses have not thus far attracted much archaeological attention. This paper will attempt a holistic treatment of these three structures and their immediate surroundings, discussing aspects of their architecture, construction, landscape, and embodied experience from a multidisciplinary angle at the interface of archaeology, architecture, (oral) history, and ethnographic interviews with their (now retired) keepers; its aim is to understand their role in the area and impact on its communities.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
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