Kavousi: Kastro
| PK | C5095 |
| TITLE | Kavousi: Kastro |
| WGS84 | 35.111092° N, 25.868083° E |
| Accuracy | Exact |
| LAT/LON | 35.111092, 25.868083 |
| LON/LAT | 25.868083, 35.111092 |
| DMS | 35° 6' 39.9312" N | , | 25° 52' 5.0988" E |
| W3W | stick, suffix, mushy |
| UTM | 35 S, 396848, 3885949 |
| EGSA87 | 670097, 3886671 |
| Elevation m | 682 |
| Elevation feet | 2237.5 |
| Region | Crete |
| Subregion | Ierapetra |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement
TYPE
1. hab. Nowicki [2000], 99 Buildings cover the top of this hill.2. hab. Boyd [1901], 137 ...a little castle perched at the extreme northern end of the Thriphte range which, ..., rises like a wall behind Kavousi.
3. hab. AR[1994], 66 'On the Kastro the conservation of all walls was completed...'
4. Settlement. Myers et al. [1992], 120 'At Kavousi two important Early Iron Age settlements have strategic positions overlooking the coast, the plains, and mountain passes at the eastern end of the Bay of Mirabello.'
SITE SIZE
- Nowicki [2000] p. 99, Size: 3000 sq. m. '...the LM IIIC settlement ... an area of about 60 by 50 m, but it was probably much larger.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 99, '...the earliest phase of occupation recorded so far on Kastro is LM IIIC (or the end of LMIIIB?).'
2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 99, '...the earliest phase of occupation recorded so far on Kastro is LM IIIC (or the end of LMIIIB?).'
b. AR[1994]: 66, 'Three phases of LM IIIC were isolated ...'
c. Myers et al. [1992]: 120, 'Kastro: LM IIIC - O settlement; ... '
d. Kanta [2003]: 179, The site started at the beginning of LM III C, when pottery retaining LM III B traits was a distinct feature of the material, ...
3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 99, '... PG and G, rebuilding...', '...a wide scale rearrangement of the settlement took place in the PG period...'
4. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
a. Nowicki [2000]: 99, '... PG and G, rebuilding...', 'Even later rebuilding, during the Geometric period...'
b. Boyd [1901]: 137, In these finds, the Geometric style is fully developed ...
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. AR[1994]: Archaeological Reports, The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. (41) 1994., 'Kavousi', pg. 66.
'It thus seems that the Kastro had an unbroken sequence of habitation throughout the LM IIIC period.'
Online here.
2. Boyd [1901]: Boyd, Harriet A.. ‘Excavations at Kavousi, Crete, in 1900’, American Journal of Archaeology (5:2), pp. 125-157, 1901., '', pg. 137.
Online here.
3. Deger-Jalkotzy and Zavadil [2006]: Deger-Jalkotzy, Sigrid and Michaela Zavadil (eds.). LH III C Chronology And Synchronisms II; LH III C Middle. Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna, October 29th and 30th, 2004., '',
4. Kanta [2003]: Kanta, Athanasia. ‘The Citadel of Kastrokephala and the Date of the Minoan Refuge Citadels’, In Deger-Jalkotzy and Zavadil [2006] 167-182, '', Online here.
5. Myers et al. [1992]: Myers, J. Wilson and Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. United States of America. 1992., '16 Kavousi', pg. 120.
6. 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., '31. Kavousi Kastro', pg. 99.