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Kephala

PKC6763
TITLEKephala
WGS84 37.191356° N, 24.446675° E
Accuracy 100 m.

LAT/LON 37.191356, 24.446675
LON/LAT 24.446675, 37.191356

DMS 37° 11' 28.8816" N,24° 26' 48.03" E

W3Wbraked, papers, discovers
UTM35 S, 273365.38, 4119154.15
EGSA87 539495, 4115906

Elevation m38
Elevation feet 124.7
RegionCyclades
SubregionSeriphos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Metallurgy

TYPE

1.    Metallurgy.   Philaniotou et al. [2011], 159    Remains of furnaces as well as extensive slag heaps.


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Philaniotou et al. [2011]: 161, Probably. But Philaniotou et al. say ' ... diagnostic pottery fragments were not found at Kephala.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Betancourt and Ferrence, eds. [2011]:  Betancourt, Philip P. and Susan C. Ferrence. Metallurgy: Understanding How, Learning Why. Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2011., '',

2.  Philaniotou et al. [2011]:  Philaniotou, Olga and Yannis Bassiakos, Myrto Georgakopoulou. ‘Early Bronze Age Copper Smelting on Seriphos (Cyclades, Greece)’, In Betancourt and Ferrence, eds. [2011], 157 - 164, 'Kephala', pg. 159. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6763 is at 37.19177° N, 24.44705° E, a straight-line distance of 56.6 m.