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Thera: Archangelos

PKC6934
TITLEThera: Archangelos
WGS84 36.349999° N, 25.386463° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 36.349999, 25.386463
LON/LAT 25.386463, 36.349999

DMS 36° 20' 59.9964" N,25° 23' 11.2668" E

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UTM35 S, 355215.3, 4023978.14
EGSA87 624259, 4023373

Elevation m42
Elevation feet 137.8
RegionCyclades
SubregionThera





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Walls

TYPE

1.    Wall.   Schallin [1993], 24    ' ... where sherds and construction walls were explored and excavated by Gorceix and Mamet in 1870.'
2.    Wall.   Davis and Cherry [1990], 190    'Walls and pottery of the sort associated with the eruption were excavated ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Cycladic I: (1700 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Davis and Cherry [1990]: 190, ' ..., and Doumas has now reported LC I pottery on the hill itself.'

2. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Schallin [1993]: 24, Implied.

NOTES

1.  See the description of Mamet and Gorceix's finds in Fouqué [1879] 122.

2.  For more see Mamet, Henricus, De Insula Thera, 1874 which can be read in its entirety here.

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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, 'Archangelos', pg. 190. Online here.

2.  Fouqué [1998]:  Fouqué, Ferdinand A.. Santorini and its Eruptions. Translated and Annotated by Alexander R. McBirney. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1998. , '', Online here.

3.  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., '',

4.  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, '50. Archangelos', pg. 24.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6934 is at 36.34804° N, 25.38676° E, a straight-line distance of 219.8 m.