Lefkandi

This situation places Lefkandi within a group of sites in Central Greece with important post-palatial occupation, such as Mitrou (settlement), Kalapodi (sanctuary), and Elateia (cemetery).

[2] The archaeological significance of the site was revealed in 1980, in excavations conducted by Evi Touloupa in collaboration with the British School at Athens,[3][4] when a large mound was discovered to contain two shaft graves.

The main feature of this solution is with a wooden verandah, foreshadowing the peristasis of the temple architecture that started to appear with regularity some two centuries later.

[citation needed] One of the bodies in the grave had been cremated, the ashes being wrapped in a fringed linen cloth then stored in a bronze amphora from Cyprus.

Other scholars have pointed to the lack of conclusive evidence for her being sacrificed, suggesting instead that this woman may have been an important person in the community in her own right, who was interred with the man's ashes after her death.

Archaeological research brought to light a settlement where continuous occupation can be demonstrated from the Mycenaean period through the Dark Ages and into historic times.

[6][7] It has been suggested by the excavators that the site can be identified as the old Eretria, which was forced to uproot and move farther from Chalkis as a result of the Lelantine War.