Qualla: Chalandriani https://qualla.com/chalandriani en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/chalandriani-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Chalandriani https://qualla.com/chalandriani Chalandriani: Introduction https://qualla.com/chalandriani/ Photo credit NNeilAlieNN, CC BY-SA 3.0. The tombs are small — barely a metre and a half across, each one sealed with a capstone over a corbelled dome of flat stones, each doorway framed in green schist. Most of them held a single person, placed in a crouched position with their head resting on a stone pillow, grave goods arranged in front of their face. More than 600 of these tombs are scattered across the Chalandra plateau on the northeastern coast of Syros. They date mostly to the Early Cycladic II period, roughly 2800 to 2300 BCE. No other single Early Cycladic cemetery approaches this number. Chalandriani is the place where we know, better than anywhere else on earth, how the early Aegean islanders buried their dead.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/chalandriani-wp/sw9t-chalandriani-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chalandriani: A Community of the Living https://qualla.com/chalandriani/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0. The people who used Chalandriani were not many. Archaeologist Cyprian Broodbank, drawing on the density and distribution of the graves, estimates that the community numbered between 75 and 100 at its peak — perhaps no more than a village by any standard. Yet the scale of the ceme...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/chalandriani-wp/sw9t-chalandriani-a-community-of-the-living.mp3 0:06 2 full Chalandriani: The Frying Pans and the Longboats https://qualla.com/chalandriani/ Photo credit Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain. Among the grave goods at Chalandriani are objects archaeologists call 'frying pans' — flat ceramic vessels whose function remains unknown. Their name is descriptive rather than functional; no one knows what they were actually used for. What distinguishes the ones found here is th...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/chalandriani-wp/sw9t-chalandriani-the-frying-pans-and-the-longboats.mp3 0:06 3 full Chalandriani: A Word Is Coined: 'Cycladic Culture' https://qualla.com/chalandriani/ Photo credit Kevin Gabbert - User: (WT-shared) Kevin James at wts wikivoyage, Public domain. The site was mentioned as early as 1842 by a local historian named P. Zolontas, who excavated some of the tombs informally. A formal excavation followed in 1861, but the archaeologist in charge incorrectly dated the tombs to the Roman period, believing them to be graves of exiles...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/9/t/chalandriani-wp/sw9t-chalandriani-a-word-is-coined-cycladic-culture.mp3 0:06 4 full Chalandriani: Kastri and the Protected Zone https://qualla.com/chalandriani/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0. Adjacent to the cemetery — a short walk to the north — stands Kastri, the fortified prehistoric settlement that followed the Early Cycladic II period. Its walls are visible on a rocky promontory above the coast. The Kastri phase is distinct from the culture that used the Chalandr...

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