Thera: Kokkino Vouno
| PK | C6932 |
| TITLE | Thera: Kokkino Vouno |
| WGS84 | 36.349644° N, 25.395294° E |
| Accuracy | 50 m. |
| LAT/LON | 36.349644, 25.395294 |
| LON/LAT | 25.395294, 36.349644 |
| DMS | 36° 20' 58.7184" N | , | 25° 23' 43.0584" E |
| W3W | renting, hooter, emblem |
| UTM | 35 S, 356007.13, 4023925.56 |
| EGSA87 | 625052, 4023346 |
| Elevation m | 66 |
| Elevation feet | 216.5 |
| Region | Cyclades |
| Subregion | Thera |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Building
TYPE
1. Building. Schallin [1993], 24 'On top of the hill are remains of a large building and associated finds.'2. Hab. Davis and Cherry [1990], 190 Perhaps a habitation? 'Doumas has reported Late Bronze Age remains on the crest of the ridge south-west of the site of Akrotiri, ... Marinatos has observed 'extensive walls', 'fragments of beautiful pottery', as well as pieces of a stone vase, metals and painted plaster.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
a. Schallin [1993]: 24, Implied.
b. Davis and Cherry [1990]: 190, ' ... Late Bronze Age remains ... '
NOTE
1. Placed based on the location of the church of Ayios Nikolaos (F5856) at the foot of a very red hill. Schallin [1993] 24 describes it as ' ... some hundred metres southwest of Akrotiri.' It is closer to 500 m from the SW corner of the Akrotiri site to the E base of this hill. At the top of this hill are two parallel walls. The marker was placed between them.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Davis and Cherry [1990]: Davis, J.L. and J.F. Cherry. ‘Spatial and Temporal Uniformitarianism in Late Cycladic I: Perspectives from Kea and Milos on the Prehistory of Akrotiri’, In Hardy et al. (eds.) [1990] 185-200, 'Kokkino Vouno or Mavro Rachidi', pg. 190.
Online here.
2. Hardy et al. (eds.) [1990]: Hardy, D.A. et al. (eds.). Thera and the Aegean World III. Volume one. Archaeology. . Proceedings of the third international congress Santorini, Greece 3-9 September 1989., '',
3. Schallin [1993]: Schallin, Ann-Louise. Islands under Influence: The Cyclades in the Late Bronze Age and the Nature of Mycenaean Presence.. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, no. 111. Jonsered 1993, '55. Kokkino Vouno (Mavro Rachidi, Ayios Nikolaos)', pg. 24.