Cambitoglou Alexander, Coulton J.J., Birmingham Judy, Green J.R. Zagora 1: Excavation of a Geometric Town on the Island of Andros

Archaeological Society at Athens, 1992. — 116 p. — (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 105.1).Andros, which is the second largest island of the Cyclades and at a distance of approximately
60 kilometres from the north-east coast of Attica is, archaeologically speaking, comparatively
unexplored. (See Map I.) Its proximity to the other northern islands of the Cyclades (more
especially Tenos) as well as to Euboea and to Athens and, above all, its position on a natural
route between mainland Greece and Asia Minor made the island attractive as a field of
archaeological research. Zagora is a rocky promontory on the west coast of the island and
the ancient settlement is built on it (Maps II and III, Fig. 3). The existence of the settlement
has long been known among the Andriotes, and the historian Paschalis, in his history of the
island, mentions walls of houses projecting above ground level as well as a fortification wall
on the neck of the promontory.