Site details

Palaikastro: Inhumation Caves

PK	C5908
TITLE	Palaikastro: Inhumation Caves
WGS84	35.190982° N, 26.287092° E
Accuracy	1000 m.

LAT/LON	35.190982, 26.287092
LON/LAT	26.287092, 35.190982

DMS

35° 11' 27.5352" N

26° 17' 13.5312" E

W3W	cove, commissions, hipbone
UTM	35 S, 435097, 3894455
EGSA87	708085, 3896330

Elevation m	11
Elevation feet	36.1
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Eaby [2007], 81    'In 1905, Dawkins examined two caves with inhumations, one at Plaka, ..., and the other to the south of it, ...'
2.    Tomb.   Dawkins [1905], 1    '... had found two 'blossom' bowls, a fine lentoid gem, a bronze ring and human remains.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan II: (1470 BC - 1420 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 81, '..., and it appears to date to LM II.'
    b.    Dawkins [1905]: 1, 'As this burial seemed from the evidence of the bowls, which are rare later, to be Late Minoan II. ...'

2. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 81, '...which Faure dates to LM III - SM.'

3. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 81, '...which Faure dates to LM III - SM.'

NOTES

1. This marker is meant to indicate two small caves, sites of tombs, that are a small distance apart. Dawkins [1905] 1 only describes this place as a 'mountain dairy'.

2. For more mentions of these caves see Faure, Paul Fonction des cavernes crétoises, 1964, pp. 66 and 73 which is online here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Dawkins [1905]: Dawkins, R.W.. ‘Excavations at Palaikastro. V’, The Annual of the British School at Athens [12], 1-8, 1905/1906., ''Excavations at Palaikastro. V'', pg. 1. Online here.

2. 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., '46. Palaikastro', pg. 81. Online here.