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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
Results from a recent surface investigation in the southern Dodecanese are presented. New sites and moveable finds are described and roughly dated. Most of them appear to belong to a Late Chalcolithic horizon, in Anatolian chronological terms. Several sites, however, produced also material that could be dated to the Early Bronze and Middle Bronze Ages, whereas M M III to LM I and Mycenaean III A–B pottery comes from Nisyros, Rhodes, and Chalke. In conclusion, the significance and implication of the finds are discussed, and suggestions on future research strategies are made.
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