Keros

Keros Κέρος
Geography
Coordinates:	36°53′N 25°39′E / 36.883°N 25.65°E / 36.883; 25.65
Island Chain:	Cyclades
Area:	15 km² (6 sq.mi.)
Highest Mountain:	Mt. Keros (43 m (141 ft))
Government
Greece
Periphery:	South Aegean
Prefecture:	Cyclades
Capital:	Uninhabited
Statistics
Population:	0 (as of 2001)
Density:	0 /km² (0 /sq.mi.)
Postal Code:	843 00
Area Code:	22870
License Code:	EM

Keros (Greek: Κέρος) is an uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades about 10 km (6 mi) southeast of Naxos. Administratively it is part of the community of Koufonisi. It has an area of 15 km² (6 sq mi) and its highest point is 432 metres (1,417 ft). It was an important site to the Cycladic civilization that flourished around 2500 BC.

Keros is especially noted for the flat-faced marble statues which later inspired the work of Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore.

In 2006 and 2007, the Cambridge Keros Project, co-directed by Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd, conducted excavations at Kavos on the west coast of the island^[1]. This site is believed to be the source of the so-called "Keros Hoard" of fragmentary Cycladic figurines^[2]. In 2008, the same project identified a substantial Cycladic period settlement on the nearby island of Dhaskalio.

References

External links

• Official website of Community of Koufonísi (Greek)
• The Cambridge Keros Project

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Coordinates: 36°53′N 25°39′E / 36.883°N 25.65°E / 36.883; 25.65

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