Site details

Kavousi Avgo: Melisses

PK	C5093
TITLE	Kavousi Avgo: Melisses
WGS84	35.117545° N, 25.883804° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	35.117545, 25.883804
LON/LAT	25.883804, 35.117545

DMS

35° 7' 3.162" N

25° 53' 1.6944" E

W3W	putted, basher, wobbling
UTM	35 S, 398289, 3886648
EGSA87	671516, 3887413

Elevation m	489
Elevation feet	1604.3
Region	Crete
Subregion	Ierapetra

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 101    '...may represent a small settlement or hamlet.'

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 101,  Size: 5000 sq. m.  Maximum: 'It covered an area of about 3,000 to 5,000 sq. m ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 101, '...Dark Age site...'

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 101, '...Dark Age site...'

3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 101, '...Dark Age site...'

4. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 101, '...Dark Age site...'

NOTE

1. Nowicki [2000] defines the term 'Dark Age' on p. 16: 'The label Dark Age as a general historical term seems to be better than both Protogeometric and Early Iron Age and I will use it in that context when appropriate in this book. ... In Crete the best absolute dating would be very late LM IIIB to the early Geometric, i.e. some decades before 1200 (1230?) to c. 800 B.C.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. 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., '33. Kavousi Avgo: Trapeza and Melisses', pg. 100. Beginning on p. 101 with the paragraph: 'The second Dark Age ...'