Site details

Tou Stavrou To Kefali

PK	C5969
TITLE	Tou Stavrou To Kefali
WGS84	35.449533° N, 27.15019° E
Accuracy	20 m.

LAT/LON	35.449533, 27.15019
LON/LAT	27.15019, 35.449533

DMS

35° 26' 58.3188" N

27° 9' 0.684" E

W3W	sealable, layover, immense
UTM	35 S, 513630, 3922907
EGSA87	785779, 3927169

Elevation m	57
Elevation feet	187
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Karpathos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Melas [1985], 32    'The evidence available gives the impression of a cemetery ...'
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Georgiadis [2003], 35    ' ... at the site of Tou Stavrou To Kefali (A10) ... a chamber tomb was in use ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 32, '...used during the LM IIIA period.'

2. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 35, ' ... a chamber tomb was in use from LH IIIA1 to LH IIIB ... '

3. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 61, '362. Complete profile of amphoroid crater ... LM IIIA1/III A2.l'

4. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 35, ' ... a chamber tomb was in use from LH IIIA1 to LH IIIB ... '

5. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 61, '367. Five frs. of a plain kylix ... LM III A2/III B?'

6. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 35, ' ... a chamber tomb was in use from LH IIIA1 to LH IIIB ... '

NOTE

1. Melas [1985] 32 mentions that the associated settlement has not been found. That may now have changed with the Afiartis Project sponsored by the University of Thrace. See Archaeological Reports (54) 2007-8, p. 94 and compare C5272. A more recent report (to which I did not have access) is Melas, M. [2009] "The Afiartis Project: Excavations at the Minoan Settlement of Fournoi, Karpathos (2001-2004) - A Preliminary Report" in The Minoans in the Central, Eastern, and Northern Aegean - New Evidence, Acts of a Minoan Seminar, 22 - 23 January 2005 in collaboration with the Danish Institute at Athens and the German Archaeological Institute at Athens (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens Book 8), MacDonald, C. and E. Hallager, and W.-D. Niemeier, 59 - 72. Athens, Danish Institute at Athens. (ISBN: 9788779342927)

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Georgiadis [2003]: Georgiadis, Mercourios. The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period; Islands, landscape, death and ancestors. BAR International Series 1196. 2003., '5.2.1 Karpathos and Kasos', pg. 35. Online here.

2. Melas [1985]: Melas, Emmanuel. The Islands of Karpathos, Saros and Kasos in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg 1985., 'D20. Tou Stavrou To Kefali', pg. 52.