TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Mazarakis-Ainian [1997], 209    ' ... stone kernos ... ', 'Boyd mentions the discovery of certain objects of iron, including a complete sword. Building B on the other hand yielded a considerable amount of material: pottery of fine quality, many drinking vessels, storage vessels etc.'

2.    Buildings.   Mazarakis-Ainian [1997], 208    'Excavations have revealed five edifices, consisting of one to three or more rooms; ... '

3.    hab.   Boyd [1901], 131    'Earliest in date are a house and a necropolis of small tholos-tombs on "Thunder Hill" ...'

4.    hab.   AR[1994], 66    'On Vronda, the consolidation and conservation of buildings A/B, E, G (the shrine), H, I-O-N, and L were completed.'

5.    Pottery.   Prent [2005], 152    'The excavators call attention to the relatively large numbers of storage and drinking vessels in Rooms B1-7.'

6.    Pottery.   Mazarakis-Ainian [1997], 209    ' ... the presence of fine pottery suggest that Building A served as the residence of the leader of the small community and Building B as his storerooms.'

7.    Settlement.   Prent [2005], 151    'The LM IIIC settlement that crowned its summit ... ', ' ... consisted of 15 to 20 buildings of different sizes, ... '

8.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 97    '...the ruins of a Dark Age settlement...'

9.    Settlement.   Mazarakis-Ainian [1997], 208    'A small settlement occupies the summit ... '

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 98,  Size: 2400 sq. m.  Or more: '... 60 by 40 m.'



PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan II: (2650 BC - 2200 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 98 '...(EM II and MM)...'

2. Early Minoan IIB: (2450 BC - 2200 BC)

    a.    AR[1994]: 66 '...; EM IIB-EM III (deposits below building E); ...'

3. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)

    a.    AR[1994]: 66 '...; EM IIB-EM III (deposits below building E); ...'

4. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 98 '...(EM II and MM)...'

5. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 97 '..., MM II, ...'

    b.    AR[1994]: 66 '...; MMII (deposits all over the summit and slopes indicate extensive habitation in this period ); ...'

6. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 98 '...in the LM IIIC ruins, ...'

    b.    AR[1994]: 66 '...; LM IIIC (the majority of buildings belong to this period); ...'

    c.    Prent [2005]: 151 'The LM IIIC settlement that crowned its summit ... ', 'The main phase of habitation at Vronda is assigned by the excavators to the 'late LM IIIC period''

    d.    Mazarakis-Ainian [1997]: 208 'The settlement was presumably abandoned at the end of the LM IIIC period ... '

7. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    Mazarakis-Ainian [1997]: 208 ' ... (with the exception of Building E which continued to be used during the SMIN and PG periods) ... '

8. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    AR[1994]: 66 '...; SM-PG (building E continued in use); ...'

9. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)

    a.    Boyd [1901]: 136 'All indications justify us in assigning the house and tombs on Thunder Hill to the sub-Mycenaean epoch, transitional between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.'

    b.    Mazarakis-Ainian [1997]: 208 ' ... (with the exception of Building E which continued to be used during the SMIN and PG periods) ... '

10. Middle Protogeometric: (1000 BC - 950 BC)

    a.    Mazarakis-Ainian [1997]: 209 'The date of the pottery ... ranges from the LM IIIC to the MPG periods.'

11. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 98 'The abandoned and probably partly ruined settlement was reused in the G-EO period...'