Site details

Kalo Chorio: Mazo

PK	C5117
TITLE	Kalo Chorio: Mazo
WGS84	35.271008° N, 25.347181° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.271008, 25.347181
LON/LAT	25.347181, 35.271008

DMS

35° 16' 15.6288" N

25° 20' 49.8516" E

W3W	crikey, traversing, clinking
UTM	35 S, 349669, 3904350
EGSA87	622381, 3903641

Elevation m	452
Elevation feet	1482.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Pedhiadha

GENERAL SITE TYPE Peak Sanctuary

TYPE

1.    hab.   Nowicki [2000], 176    'The site was fairly small at the beginning of the Dark Age and grew considerably ...'
2.    hab.   Sjögren [2003], 121    'Habitation site'
3.    Peak Sanctuary.   Nowicki [2000], 176    ' ...; those (figurines, rhc) unearthed by Platon represented the MM period and the site was interpreted as a Protopalatial peak sanctuary (Platon 1947, 639).'
4.    Sanctuary.   Faure [1967], 122    'Ce sanctuaire MM 1, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 176, ' ...; those (figurines, RHC) unearthed by Platon represented the MM period ... '

2. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 176, '...some potsherds are apparently of MM date ...', 'Dating: MM I-II, ...'
    b.    Faure [1967]: 122, 'Ce sanctuaire MM 1, ... '

3. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 176, '...some potsherds are apparently of MM date ...', 'Dating: MM I-II, ...'

4. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 176, 'The much smaller extension of the LM IIIC material ..., '

5. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 176, 'Protogeometric and Geometric material out numbers fragments which seem to belong to the earlier phase of the Dark Age.'

6. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 176, 'Protogeometric and Geometric material out numbers fragments which seem to belong to the earlier phase of the Dark Age.'
    b.    Sjögren [2003]: 121, 'Scattered pottery sherds from the G period.'

7. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 176, '...,A?'

NOTES

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.'

2. If I (RHC) understand the literature properly it seems that the identification of this site as a peak sanctuary is not resolved.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Faure [1967]: Faure, Paul. ‘Nouvelles recherches sur trois sortes de sanctuaires crétois’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (91:1), pp. 114-150, 1967., '- Κορφή, ou Στοΰ Μάζα', pg. 122. 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., '75. Kalo Chorio Maza', pg. 175.

3. Sjögren [2003]: Sjögren, Lena. Cretan Locations; Discerning site variations in Iron Age and Archaic Crete (800 - 500 B.C.). BAR International Series, no 1185. BAR Publishing, Oxford, UK. 2003., 'C30. Kalochorio: Maza', pg. 121.