Site details

Parsa Cave

PK	C5883
TITLE	Parsa Cave
WGS84	35.061425° N, 25.563923° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.061425, 25.563923
LON/LAT	25.563923, 35.061425

DMS

35° 3' 41.13" N

25° 33' 50.1228" E

W3W	limped, flexes, yeast
UTM	35 S, 369049, 3880798
EGSA87	642461, 3880684

Elevation m	586
Elevation feet	1922.6
Region	Crete
Subregion	Ierapetra

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cave

TYPE

1.    Cave.   Faure [1956], 100    '... une vieille femme a découvert, en 1943, l'entrée étroite d'une grotte très profonde qui a servi de refuge aux partisans à la fin de la guerre.'
2.    Cem.   Eaby [2007], 61    'Faure identified a deep cave ~20 minutes southwest of the village (Males, rhc), inside of which were found a number of ancient bones, some of children, together with fragments of pottery, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 61, '..., Geometric and earlier.'
    b.    Faure [1956]: 100, '...: géométriques ou immédiatement antérieures.'

NOTE

1. Faure [1956] gives the location, p. 100: 'A 20 minutes au S.-O. du village de Parsa (Sud-Est du Lasithi) ...'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Eaby [2007]: Eaby, Melissa Suzanne. Mortuary Variability in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials. Dissertation for Ph.D. submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2007., '25. Parsa', pg. 61. Online here.

2. Faure [1956]: Faure, Paul. ‘Grottes crétoises’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (80), 95-103, 1956., '4)', pg. 100. Online here.