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Platanias/Boubousti

PK	C1332
TITLE	Platanias∕Boubousti
WGS84	40.38574° N, 21.351208° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	40.38574, 21.351208
LON/LAT	21.351208, 40.38574

DMS

40° 23' 8.664" N

21° 21' 4.3488" E

W3W	fleeces, inherit, archives
UTM	34 T, 529810, 4470631
EGSA87	275014, 4473655

Elevation m	649
Elevation feet	2129.3
Region	Macedonia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Hab.   Heurtley [1926], 165    Most of the find consisted of remains of 4 or 5 huts and sherds.
2.    Pottery.   Heurtley [1926], 167    'The pottery is all hand-made, usually of grey clay fairly well purified.'
3.    Settlement.   Leekley and Efstratiou [1980], 80    ' ... a small Late Bronze and Early Iron Age settlement at Boubousti, ... '
4.    Sherds.   Leekley and Efstratiou [1980], 80    'A few imported Mycenaean and possible proto-Geometric sherds were recovered.'
5.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 178    'Most of the pottery here was of a local Bronze Age type, but one sherd ... is LH III, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 178, 'BA LH III(B-C) "PG"'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 80, 'A few imported Mycenaean and ... '
    b.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 80, 'The site was occupied from c. 1500 B.C. to c. 900 B.C.'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 178, 'BA LH III(B-C) "PG"'

4. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 178, 'BA LH III(B-C) "PG"'

5. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 80, ' ... and possible proto-Geometric sherds were recovered.'

NOTES

1. Placement is based on the sketch map in Heurtley [1926] 163, Fig. 4.

2. Heurtley [1926] provides a description of finds beginning at pg. 165

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Heurtley [1926]: Heurtley, W. A.. ‘A Prehistoric Site in Western Macedonia and the Dorian Invasion’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (28) 158 - 194. (1926/1927), '', pg. 161. Online here.

2. Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: Leekley, Dorothy and Nicholas Efstratiou. Archaeological Excavations in Northern Greece. Noyes Press, Park Ridge, New Jersey. 1980, 'Boubousti', pg. 80.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'L 15 Platanias (formerly Boubousti)', pg. 178. Online here.