Site details

Chandras Voila Kastri

PK	C4488
TITLE	Chandras Voila Kastri
WGS84	35.084555° N, 26.108449° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.084555, 26.108449
LON/LAT	26.108449, 35.084555

DMS

35° 5' 4.398" N

26° 6' 30.4164" E

W3W	notify, leanness, gagging
UTM	35 S, 418727, 3882783
EGSA87	692068, 3884164

Elevation m	652
Elevation feet	2139.1
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Artifacts

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2014], 147    ' ... FN II and probable early EM I pottery (the Red Ware Fabric Group) ... '
2.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2014], 147    'This site was primarily identified as an LM IIIC settlement, ... '
3.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 61    'A Dark Age settlement has been identified on the top of Kastri ...,'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 147, ' ... FN II and probable early EM I pottery (the Red Ware Fabric Group) was recorded ... '

2. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 61, 'Several potsherds may also indicate EM occupation.'

3. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 147, ' ... FN II and probable early EM I pottery (the Red Ware Fabric Group) was recorded ... '

4. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 61, '...allow us to place the site within the LM IIIC-SM/PG period.'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 147, 'This site was primarily identified as an LM IIIC settlement, ... '

5. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 61, '...allow us to place the site within the LM IIIC-SM/PG period.'

6. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 61, '...allow us to place the site within the LM IIIC-SM/PG period.'

NOTES

1.  Contributed by Professor S. Murray, University of Toronto.

2.  See Nowicki [2000] 61, fig. 17, no. 1 for the position of this settlement.

3.  Cf. Eaby [2007] 71, '35. Chandras (or Voila)' for burial pithos fragments found near here but whose exact find location was not recorded.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Eaby [2007]: Eaby, Melissa Suzanne. Mortuary Variability in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials. Dissertation for Ph.D. submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2007., '35. Chandras (or Voila)', pg. 71. Online here.

2. 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., '12. Chandras Voila Kastri', pg. 60.

3. Nowicki [2014]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '64 Voila Kastri', pg. 147. Online here.