PKey Report
      
PKC2642
TITLEVronda: Cem
WGS84 35.110416° N, 25.857801° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.110416, 25.857801
LON/LAT 25.857801, 35.110416

DMS 35° 6' 37.4976" N,25° 51' 28.0836" E

W3Wsquawk, erased, tropics
UTM35 S, 395910, 3885885
EGSA87 669161, 3886578

Elevation m412
Elevation feet 1351.7
RegionCrete
SubregionIerapetra





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tholos

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Kanta [1980], 144    

2.    Tholos.   Coulson et al. [1983], 394    'Of the eight tholos tombs excavated by Harriet Boyd in 1900, we were able to locate and identify five, ...'

3.    Tholos.   Boyd [1901], 132    



PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)

    a.    Kanta [1980]: 144 'The tholos tombs at the Vrondos hill, ..., date from the LM III and continue into the Subminoan.'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    Coulson et al. [1983]: 398 'The existing vases range in date from Subminoan (SM) to Protogeometric B (PGB) ...'

3. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    Coulson et al. [1983]: 398 'The existing vases range in date from Subminoan (SM) to Protogeometric B (PGB) ...'

    b.    Kanta [1980]: 144 '...and continue into the Subminoan.'

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

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


NOTES

1.  The position is based on the diagram in Glowacki [2002] 36, fig. 22. See also fig. 3, p. 395 in Coulson et al. [1983].

2.  Eaby [2007], 'H. Vronda', 55 ff. gives a full description of the finds.

3.  Site contributed by Professor S. Murray, University of Toronto.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Boyd [1901]:  Boyd, Harriet A.. ‘Excavations at Kavousi, Crete, in 1900’, American Journal of Archaeology (5:2), pp. 125-157, 1901., '', pg. 132. Online here.

2.  Coulson et al. [1983]:  Coulson, William and Geraldine Gesell, Leslie Day. ‘Excavations and Survey at Kavousi, 1978-1981’, Hesperia (52:4). 1983., 'Vronda', pg. 394. Online here.

3.  Eaby [2007]:  Eaby, Melissa Suzanne. Mortuary Variability in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials. Dissertation for Ph.D. submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2007., 'H. Vronda', pg. 55. Online here.

4.  Glowacki [2002]:  Glowacki, Kevin. ‘Digging houses at LM IIIC Vronda (Kavousi) Crete’, Pallas (58), 33-47. 2002., '', pg. 33. Online here.

5.  Kanta [1980]:  Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., '2. Kavousi', pg. 144. 'The tholos tombs at the Vrondos hill, excavated by Boyd, date from the LM III and continue into the Subminoan...'