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Thera: Kokkino Vouno

PKC6932
TITLEThera: 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

W3Wrenting, hooter, emblem
UTM35 S, 356007.13, 4023925.56
EGSA87 625052, 4023346

Elevation m66
Elevation feet 216.5
RegionCyclades
SubregionThera





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.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6932 is at 36.34856° N, 25.39435° E, a straight-line distance of 147.8 m.