Site details

Kouses

PK	C4212
TITLE	Kouses
WGS84	35.020708° N, 24.823059° E
Accuracy	200 m.

LAT/LON	35.020708, 24.823059
LON/LAT	24.823059, 35.020708

DMS

35° 1' 14.5488" N

24° 49' 23.0124" E

W3W	breaches, barring, snore
UTM	35 S, 301384, 3877505
EGSA87	574939, 3875360

Elevation m	111
Elevation feet	364.2
Region	Crete
Subregion	Pyrgiotissa

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Watrous et al. [2004], 532    'Farm?'

SITE SIZE

- Watrous et al. [2004]  p. 531,  Size: 121 sq. m.  A Minoan farmhouse: 'Size: 11 x 11 m.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Watrous et al. [2004]: 532, 'MM I - LM I farmhouse. ...'

2. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Watrous et al. [2004]: 531, 'MM II: Barbotine sherds found ...'

3. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Watrous et al. [2004]: 531, 'MM III - LM I: pithoi, amphoras, fine ware, spindle whorls, and a bronze dagger; ...'

4. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Watrous et al. [2004]: 532, 'MM I - LM I farmhouse. ...'

5. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Watrous et al. [2004]: 532, 'LM III, C (?), LR burials'

NOTE

1. Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Watrous et al. [2004]: Watrous, L. Vance, Despoina Hadzi-Vallianou, Harriet Blitzer. Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete. Monumenta Archaeologica 23, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles. 2004., 'Appendix D, 37.', pg. 531. Online here.