Site details
Prasies: Kastro
| PK | C2419 |
| TITLE | Prasies: Kastro |
| WGS84 | 35.31184° N, 24.536009° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 35.31184, 24.536009 |
| LON/LAT | 24.536009, 35.31184 |
| DMS | 35° 18' 42.624" N | , | 24° 32' 9.6324" E |
| W3W | assembled, tombs, happens |
| UTM | 35 S, 275990, 3910411 |
| EGSA87 | 548577, 3907469 |
| Elevation m | 408 |
| Elevation feet | 1338.6 |
| Region | Crete |
| Subregion | Rethymnon |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement
TYPE
1. hab. Nowicki [2000], 196 'A Dark Age site was mentioned by Hood, Warren and Cadogan on the hill of Kastri, ...'2. Settlement. Kanta [1980], 215 'An LM III settlement has been observed at the Kastri location.'
3. Settlement. Hood et al. [1964], 69 'There seems to have been a large settlement here in L.M. III, ...'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 196, 'Many potsherds seem to represent an earlier (MM-LM) period.'
2. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 196, 'Many potsherds seem to represent an earlier (MM-LM) period.'
3. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
a. Hood et al. [1964]: 69, '...large settlement here in L.M. III, ...'
b. Kanta [1980]: 215, 'An LM III settlement has been observed ...'
4. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 196, 'Two tripod legs with circular section may indicate LM IIIC-PG date; ...'
5. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 196, 'Two tripod legs with circular section may indicate LM IIIC-PG date; ...'
6. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
a. Hood et al. [1964]: 69, '..., and we noted traces of Geometric and later occupation.'
NOTES
1. The diagram (Fig. 116) on p. 197 in Nowicki [2000] is confusing. The N axis must be rotated 90° so that N is to the right.
2. Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Hood et al. [1964]: Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren, Gerald Cadogan . ‘Travels in Crete, 1962’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (59), pp. 50-99, 1964., '19. Prases: 'Kastri'', pg. 69.
Online here.
2. 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., '8. Prases', pg. 215.
3. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '92. Prasies Kastri', pg. 196.