RESEARCH REPORT FOR 2008, cont.

Livari
ASPRO NERO, AGIA IRINI, LIVARI: EXAMINATION AND SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTATION
RESEARCH REPORT FOR 2008, cont.
Due to its wide extent, until 2008 the coastal strip and plateau of Livari had not yet been
surveyed in its entirety. Parts of Livari were documented in 2000: an ?EM/MM settlement at
Cheromylia (SITE 36), an EM−MM I cemetery and tholos tomb at Skiadi (SITE 37), and an
FN settlement at Katharades (SITE 34 and SITE 35) on high ground above and behind the
coast (see Schlager et al. 2002, 192−212). This year a complete site map has been prepared,
including all artificial structures (modern houses and huts, stone shelters, sheep and goat pens,
threshing floors, wells, fences, field roads, heaps of accumulated field stones, grain fields and
deserted fields, olive groves, beehives etc.), together with the known ancient ruins as well as a
series of new ones, which have been documented in detail. Contrary to what had been
suggested in the 2008 application, dividing the whole area of Livari into two sites, SITE 38
comprising any ancient structures, and an overlying SITE 39 relating to all modern features, it
has now been found convenient to apply the name of SITE 38 to all structures, ancient and
modern, that lie west of the gorge of Ankastara, and north of SITE 36 and SITE 37, whereas
SITE 39 refers to any structures and features east of the same gorge. The confirmed ancient
sites are given in the list below:
SITE 38A:
FN−EM II settlement with a minimum north−south extension of 75 m along the east slope of
a small coastal rocky range called locally Kastrokephalaki (Καστροκεφαλ κι).
SITE 38B:
Roughly quadrangular rock cut feature at the peak of Kastrokephalaki with small cleft leading
into the rock; perhaps a sort of hilltop shrine above and dominating SITE 38A.
SITE 38C:
Walled-off and partly robbed cave in the west slope of the same range opposite SITE 38A
with many EM I/II pottery sherds including one fragment of fine Vasiliki ware of EM IIB.
Since no bones were detected, the function of the cave as a burial place remains doubtful,
compared for example to the confirmed burial cave at Kastri Goudourou SITE 41 (cf.
Schlager & Dollhofer 1998).
SITE 39A:
This is not ancient, but a 19th century AD walled look-out post (vigla) on top of the steep cliff
cape at the eastern confines of Livari. It was obviously built in a strategic position in order to
control the sea below. Local inquiries drew a complete blank as to its builders: Turkish troops
or Cretan andartes ?
SITE 36:
The published schematic plan of SITE 36 (Cheromylia) (Schlager et al. 2002, 203, fig. 16)
could be supplemented with additional walls, stretches of walls, and even whole buildings,
which had not been recognized as such nor documented in 2000. A new state plan of the
settlement, part of which is now submerged in the sea, has been drawn. Pottery and stray finds
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