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Stavromenos: Zou: Burial Cave

PKC5913
TITLEStavromenos: Zou: Burial Cave
WGS84 35.156041° N, 26.107424° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 35.156041, 26.107424
LON/LAT 26.107424, 35.156041

DMS 35° 9' 21.7476" N,26° 6' 26.7264" E

W3Wqueasy, inflict, catacomb
UTM35 S, 418705, 3890712
EGSA87 691807, 3892092

Elevation m168
Elevation feet 551.2
RegionCrete
SubregionSiteia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Cave

TYPE

1.    Cave.   Eaby [2007], 95    'A small burial cave ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Geometric: (760 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 95, '...with 11 PGB and LG vases and inhumation burials ...'

NOTES

1.  Eaby [2007] 95, 'No further information about this cave has been published and its exact location is unknown.' Marker placed notionally on the town of Zou.

2.  The relevant Aristeia Project page is here.

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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., '55. Zou (in the area of Stavromenos)', pg. 95. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5913 is at 35.19995° N, 26.11986° E, a straight-line distance of 5 km and 1 m.