Site details

Kokkino Khorio

PK	C5795
TITLE	Kokkino Khorio
WGS84	35.451663° N, 24.223912° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	35.451663, 24.223912
LON/LAT	24.223912, 35.451663

DMS

35° 27' 5.9868" N

24° 13' 26.0832" E

W3W	guard, inked, timeframe
UTM	35 S, 248045, 3926675
EGSA87	520171, 3922867

Elevation m	159
Elevation feet	521.7
Region	Crete
Subregion	Apokoronas

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cave

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   CrChr [1965], 298
2.    Cave.   Moody [1987],     'FUNCTION: Minoan-refuge cave?'
3.    Refuge Cave.   Faure [1969], 202    '...refuge humide ...', '..., avec tessons...'
4.    Sherds.   Kanta [1980], 236    'Two caves have been discovered in the region of this village. They contained LM III B sherds ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Faure [1969]: 202, '...refuge humide de la fin du MR 3, ...'

2. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , 'DATE: LMIII (IIIB and possiblly IIIC)'
    b.    Kanta [1980]: 236, 'They contained LM III B sherds.'
    c.    CrChr [1965]: 298,

3. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Moody [1987]: , 'DATE: LMIII (IIIB and possiblly IIIC)'

NOTES

1.  The sherds found here are illustrated in Kanta [1980], pl. 92, nn. 9-12.

2.  See the additional bibliography in Faure [1969] 202, fn. 3.

3.  Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. CrChr [1965]: Cretica Chronika (19) 1965., '', pg. 298.

2. Faure [1969]: Faure, Paul. ‘Sur trois sortes de sanctuaires crétois’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (93:1) 174-213. 1969., '', pg. 202. Online here.

3. 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., '4. Kokkino Khorio', pg. 236.

4. 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., 'DPK1', Online here.