Site details

Kera Spilaiotissa

PK	C5722
TITLE	Kera Spilaiotissa
WGS84	35.485418° N, 23.89367° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	35.485418, 23.89367
LON/LAT	23.89367, 35.485418

DMS

35° 29' 7.5048" N

23° 53' 37.212" E

W3W	defies, trained, populate
UTM	34 S, 762520, 3930726
EGSA87	490206, 3926593

Elevation m	236
Elevation feet	774.3
Region	Crete
Subregion	Kydhonia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Hab

TYPE

1.    Cult.   Moody [1987],     'FUNCTION: ...and sacred cave'
2.    hab.   Faure [1958], 500    '..., atteste la fréquentation humaine...'
3.    Sherds.   Hood [1965], 106    '...reported Neolithic and E.M. pottery, together with sherds of all L.M. periods and Geometric, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Faure [1958]: 500, '..., au minoen ancien, ...'

2. Late Minoan: (1675 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , '... LM sherds come from here.', 'Faure suggests the cave functioned as a cult place in the LM period.'

3. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood [1965]: 106, '...sherds of all L.M. periods...'

4. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Hood [1965]: 106, '...sherds of all L.M. periods...'

5. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood [1965]: 106, '...sherds of all L.M. periods...'

6. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Faure [1958]: 500, '..., à toutes les époques du minoen récent et au géométrique.'

7. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Faure [1958]: 500, '..., à toutes les époques du minoen récent et au géométrique.'

8. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Faure [1958]: 500, '..., à toutes les époques du minoen récent et au géométrique.'

9. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Faure [1958]: 500, '..., à toutes les époques du minoen récent et au géométrique.'
    b.    Hood [1965]: 106, '...and Geometric, ...'

NOTE

1. A cave habitation.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Faure [1958]: Faure, Paul. ‘Spéléologie et topographie crétoises’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (82), pp. 495-515. 1958, '', pg. 500. Online here.

2. Hood [1965]: Hood, M.S.F.. ‘Minoan Sites in the Far West of Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (60), pp. 99-113, 1965., 'C. 3. Vrises; 2. 'Kera Spiliotissa'', pg. 111. Online here.

3. Moody [1987]: Moody, Jennifer Alice. The Environmental and Cultural Prehistory of the Khania Region of West Crete: Neolithic through Late Minoan III. Ph.D. Dissertation. The Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. 1987., 'Appendix III: Site Catalog, VRS1 (1b)', Online here.