Naxos is an incredible island filled with archaeology and mystery. I simply had to investigate. And eventually got round to making a history video about its entire prehistoric story from the Neolithic to the beginning of the classical world. Enjoy! This has been in the works since 2022.

4:20 - Part 1 - To The Sea

10:40 - Part 2 - On The Island

30:04 - Part 3 - By Grotta Beach

49:47 - Part 4 - Sunken City

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Some of the sources used in writing this -

Zachos, K. L. (1990). “The Neolithic Period in Naxos.” In L. Marangou (ed.), Cycladic Culture: Naxos in the 3rd Millennium B.C

Zachos, K. L. (1999). “Zas Cave on Naxos and the Role of Caves in the Aegean Late Neolithic.” In P. Halstead (ed.), Neolithic Society in Greece

Carter, T. et al. (2014). “The Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project: New Data on the Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Cyclades.”

Taffin, N. et al. (2024). “Chronological and post-depositional insights from single-grain IRSL dating of a Palaeolithic sequence at Stelida, Naxos (Greece).”

Marangou, L. (ed.) (1990). Cycladic Culture: Naxos in the 3rd Millennium B.C. Athens: N. P. Goulandris Foundation – Museum of Cycladic Art.

Doumas, C. & Lambrinoudakis, V. (2017). “The Cemetery at Aplomata on Naxos.” In M. Marthari, C. Renfrew & M. J. Boyd (eds.), Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context

Angelopoulou, A. (2008). “The Kastri Group: The Evidence from Korphari ton Amygdalion (Panormos) Naxos, Dhaskalio Keros and Akrotiri, Thera.” In N. Brodie et al. (eds.), ORIZON: A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades

Barber, R. L. N. & Hadjianastasiou, O. (1989). “Mikre Vigla: A Bronze Age Settlement on Naxos.”

Barber, R. L. N. (1987). The Cyclades in the Bronze Age. London: Duckworth.

Broodbank, C. (2000). An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cosmopoulos, M. B. (1998). “Reconstructing Cycladic Prehistory: Naxos in the Early and Middle Late Bronze Age.”

Vlachopoulos, A. G. & Charalambidou, X. (2019). “Naxos and the Cyclades.” In I. S. Lemos & A. Kotsonas (eds.), A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean. Wiley-Blackwell.

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