PKey Report
PKC5562
TITLEKnossos: Archaic Excavation
WGS84 35.297494° N, 25.160788° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.297494, 25.160788
LON/LAT 25.160788, 35.297494

DMS 35° 17' 50.9784" N,25° 9' 38.8368" E

W3Wcarrots, stuffing, teaching
UTM35 S, 332769, 3907586
EGSA87 605393, 3906364

Elevation m97
Elevation feet 318.2
RegionCrete
SubregionTemenos







GENERAL SITE TYPE  Wall

TYPE

1.    Wall.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 50    'Late Minoan, Protogeometric, Geometric and later walls, together with a Hellenistic street, were revealed in the excavations.'

2.    Wall.   JHS[1937], 137    'A Late Minoan wall was uncovered, running irregularly east and west up the hill.'



PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)

    a.    JHS[1937]: 137, 'To the north a MM III wall, ...'

2. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)

    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 50, 'Late Minoan, ...'

    b.    JHS[1937]: 137, '...Late Minoan wall...'

3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 50, '..., Protogeometric, ...'

4. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)

    a.    JHS[1937]: 138, '..., of which there is a stratified deposit reaching down into sub-Minoan.'

5. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)

    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 50, '..., Geometric ...'

    b.    JHS[1937]: 137, 'A Geometric wall following roughly the same direction...'


BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  JHS[1937]:  Journal of Hellenic Studies. (57), 1937, 'Crete; Knossos.', pg. 137. Online here.

2.  Hood and Smyth [1981]:  Hood, Sinclair and David Smyth. ‘Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area’, The British School at Athens. Supplementary Volumes, No. 14, Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area, pp. i-x & 1-69, 1981, '207 (112). 'ARCHAIC EXCAVATION'', pg. 50. Online here.