Site details

Kanava

PK	C1203
TITLE	Kanava
WGS84	36.708686° N, 24.469773° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	36.708686, 24.469773
LON/LAT	24.469773, 36.708686

DMS

36° 42' 31.2696" N

24° 28' 11.1828" E

W3W	upstanding, solder, cower
UTM	35 S, 273993, 4065541
EGSA87	541809, 4062371

Elevation m	14
Elevation feet	45.9
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Melos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Syriopoulos [1995], 1130
2.    Pottery.   Schallin [1993], 17    'An LH IIIA or IIIB pot in the Melos Museum is said to come from this site, ... '
3.    Pottery.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 317    'A pot in the Melos Museum is said to have come from here, ... '
4.    Pottery.   Simpson [1981], 190    'A Mycenaean vase in the Melos museum is said to have come from Kanava, on the east side of the bay of Melos.'
5.    Settlement.   Cherry [1982], 296    'This small settlement on the Bay of Milos is the supposed findspot of a LH IIIA or IIIB pot ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 190, 'A Mycenaean vase in the Melos museum ... '

2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Cherry [1982]: 296, 'LB; A'

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 190, 'LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 1130,
    c.    Schallin [1993]: 17, 'An LH IIIA or IIIB pot in the Melos Museum ... '
    d.    Cherry [1982]: 296, ' ... findspot of a LH IIIA or IIIB pot ... '
    e.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 317, 'LH III(A-B)'

4. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 190, 'LH III(A-B)'
    b.    Syriopoulos [1995]: 1130,
    c.    Schallin [1993]: 17, 'An LH IIIA or IIIB pot in the Melos Museum ... '
    d.    Cherry [1982]: 296, ' ... findspot of a LH IIIA or IIIB pot ... '
    e.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 317, 'LH III(A-B)'

5. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Cherry [1982]: 296, 'LB; A'

NOTES

1. No precise location information is provided.

2. In Simpson [1981] p. 109: 'A Mycenaean vase in the Melos museum is said to have come from Kanava, on the east side of the bay of Melos.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Cherry [1982]: Cherry, John F.. ‘Appendix A: Register of Archaeological Sites on Melos’, In Renfrew and Wagstaff[1982] 291 - 309, '23. Kanava K949006', pg. 296.

2. Renfrew and Wagstaff[1982]: Renfrew, Colin and Malcolm Wagstaff (eds.). An Island Polity; The archaeology of exploitation in Melos. Cambridge University Press. 1982., '',

3. Schallin [1993]: Schallin, Ann-Louise. Islands under Influence: The Cyclades in the Late Bronze Age and the Nature of Mycenaean Presence.. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, no. 111. Jonsered 1993, '24. Kanava', pg. 17.

4. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Melos: Kanava', pg. 190. Online here.

5. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'Kanava', pg. 317. Online here.

6. Syriopoulos [1995]: Syriopoulos, Konstantinos. Γενικος Συνοπτικος Καταλογος Των Περιεχομενων και των Δυο Τομων: Δευτερος Τομος. Athens: Athens Archaeological Society. 1995., '', pg. 1130.