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Anatoli: Sochores

PK	C5131
TITLE	Anatoli: Sochores
WGS84	35.059898° N, 25.659272° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.059898, 25.659272
LON/LAT	25.659272, 35.059898

DMS

35° 3' 35.6328" N

25° 39' 33.3792" E

W3W	contestants, resists, chum
UTM	35 S, 377742, 3880507
EGSA87	651160, 3880655

Elevation m	511
Elevation feet	1676.5
Region	Crete
Subregion	Ierapetra

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 129    '...Dark Age settlement...'
2.    Tomb.   BCH Online, 3571    'V. Apostolakou (ΚΔ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of human bones and sherds in an opening in the rock. In the southern part of the area, ... '

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 129,  Size: 15000 sq. m.  'An area c. 100 by 150 m is covered with a great number of sherds.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Minoan: (3100 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    BCH Online: 3571, 'Together with sherds, some of which were Minoan, ... '

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 129, '...there are fragments which dates (sic) from the LM IIIC and PG periods.', '...it seems likely that the settlement was founded here in a more advanced phase of the LM IIIC period ...'

3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 129, '...there are fragments which dates (sic) from the LM IIIC and PG periods.'

4. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 129, 'Most represent the Geometric to Orientalizing ... periods ...'

5. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 129, ..., A?', '... and perhaps early Archaic ...'

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. This area described in Faure [1958] 513-514.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BCH Online: Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, 'Kalamavka - 2003', no. 3571. Online here.

2. Faure [1958]: Faure, Paul. ‘Spéléologie et topographie crétoises’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (82), pp. 495-515. 1958, '', pg. 513. Online here.

3. 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., '51. Anatoli Sochores', pg. 129.