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Psakhna: Ayia Paraskevi

PKC1237
TITLEPsakhna: Ayia Paraskevi
WGS84 38.548822° N, 23.647884° E
Accuracy 50 m.

LAT/LON 38.548822, 23.647884
LON/LAT 23.647884, 38.548822

DMS 38° 32' 55.7592" N,23° 38' 52.3824" E

W3Wslicer, tenfold, uncritically
UTM34 S, 730752, 4270035
EGSA87 469168, 4266482

Elevation m9
Elevation feet 29.5
RegionEuboea





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Sackett et al. [1966], 56    'Immediately to the south of the church, on the north-west slopes of the rocky promontory stretching to Varka, are several L.H. chamber tombs ...'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 225    'To W of the church on the opposite side of the road three LH chamber tombs ... '
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Simpson [1981], 54    '...several Mycenaean chamber tombs, in the slopes of a ridge.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 54, 'LH A C H', ' ... several Mycenaean chamber tombs, ... '
    b.    Sackett et al. [1966]: 56, '...several L.H. chamber tombs ...'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 225, ' ... three LH chamber tombs ... '

2. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 225, ' ... A C H'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Sackett et al. [1966]:  Sackett, L.H., and V. Hankey, R.J. Howell, T.W. Jacobsen, M.R. Popham. ‘Prehistoric Euboea: Contributions toward a Survey’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 61, pp. 33-112, [1966], '33. Psakhna: Ayia Paraskevi', pg. 56. Online here.

2.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'B 61 Psakhna: Ayia Paraskevi', pg. 54. Online here.

3.  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., 'F 71 Psakhna: Ayia Paraskevi', pg. 225. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1237 is at 38.54167° N, 23.62656° E, a straight-line distance of 2 km and 20 m.