Site details

Hagia Kyriaki: Cem

PK	C5739
TITLE	Hagia Kyriaki: Cem
WGS84	35.522371° N, 24.047015° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.522371, 24.047015
LON/LAT	24.047015, 35.522371

DMS

35° 31' 20.5356" N

24° 2' 49.254" E

W3W	packers, guidebooks, scrapes
UTM	35 S, 232220, 3934986
EGSA87	504114, 3930687

Elevation m	20
Elevation feet	65.6
Region	Crete
Subregion	Kydhonia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Kanta [1980], 228    'An LM III cemetery site was accidentally found during the war here, ...'
2.    hab.   Moody [1987],     'FUNCTION: Minoan-habitation Minoan and later burials'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , 'EM MMI-II MMIII/LM? LMIII'

2. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , 'EM MMI-II MMIII/LM? LMIII'

3. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , 'EM MMI-II MMIII/LM? LMIII'

4. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , 'EM MMI-II MMIII/LM? LMIII'

5. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Kanta [1980]: 228, 'An LM III cemetery site...'
    b.    Moody [1987]: , 'The two excavated tombs had horseshoe-shaped chambers and contained LMIII pottery.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Kanta [1980]: Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., 'Khalepa Hagia Kyriaki', pg. 228.

2. 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, KE1', Online here.