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Ta Mnemata

PKC5659
TITLETa Mnemata
WGS84 35.214668° N, 25.468487° E
Accuracy 20 m.

LAT/LON 35.214668, 25.468487
LON/LAT 25.468487, 35.214668

DMS 35° 12' 52.8048" N,25° 28' 6.5532" E

W3Wsquad, members, tenable
UTM35 S, 360607, 3897924
EGSA87 633507, 3897548

Elevation m1028
Elevation feet 3372.7
RegionCrete
SubregionLasithi





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cem

TYPE

1.    Tomb.   Nowicki [2000], 163    'The tombs were of the tholos type, square or slightly rectangular in plan, ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 163, This was the cemetery of the LM III Karfi community.

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 164, '...the occupation (of Karphi, RHC) started at least in the very early phase of LM IIIC and ended before the beginning of Protogeometric, although limited evidence of this latter phase is present in some tombs ...'

NOTE

1.  See Nowicki [2000] 163-4 for a description of these extensive cemeteries.

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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., '', pg. 163.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5659 is at 35.29242° N, 25.45491° E, a straight-line distance of 8 km and 715 m.