Site details

Lastros: Langades: Cave

PK	C5897
TITLE	Lastros: Langades: Cave
WGS84	35.136963° N, 25.912627° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	35.136963, 25.912627
LON/LAT	25.912627, 35.136963

DMS

35° 8' 13.0668" N

25° 54' 45.4572" E

W3W	pulses, reward, toymaker
UTM	35 S, 400939, 3888773
EGSA87	674102, 3889617

Elevation m	426
Elevation feet	1397.6
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cave

TYPE

1.    Cave.   Eaby [2007], 75    '...burial cave, ...', 'Two LM IIIB chamber tombs were also excavated at this location, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 75, '...an LM IIIB and SM burial cave, ...'

2. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 75, '...an LM IIIB and SM burial cave, ...', 'Two LM IIIB chamber tombs were also excavated...'

NOTE

1. I am not sure that any precise locational information is forthcoming about this cave. Faure [1962] 41 says 'Lastros est bien connu pour ses cavernes funéraires M.R.3 b et subminoennes de Langares, nécropole de la hauteur appelée Papourikaras'. I can find no additional information about the toponymes Langares or Papourikaras. I placed the marker where Topoguide shows a cave but with no certainty that this is correct.

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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., '40. Lastros', pg. 75. Online here.

2. Faure [1962]: Faure, Paul. ‘Cavernes et sites aux deux extrémités de la Crète’, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (86:1), pp. 36-56. 1962., '8°', pg. 41. Online here.