Site details

Paros: Kostos

PK	C6961
TITLE	Paros: Kostos
WGS84	37.074683° N, 25.224226° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	37.074683, 25.224226
LON/LAT	25.224226, 37.074683

DMS

37° 4' 28.8588" N

25° 13' 27.2136" E

W3W	superiority, prolonging, heavily
UTM	35 S, 342146.31, 4104632.22
EGSA87	608674, 4103570

Elevation m	116
Elevation feet	380.6
Region	Cyclades
Subregion	Paros

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Cem.   Renfrew [2011], 11318    'Cist graves, doubtless of EBA date, near this village were reported to Tsountas (1898, 140), although he was not able to locate them.'
2.    Cem.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 320    'Cists here were reported to Tsountas but not located.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Renfrew [2011]: 11318, 'Cist graves, doubtless of EBA date, ... '
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 320, 'EB?'

NOTES

1. The Kostos site was reported to Tsountas but never found. Renfrew offers a guess. The position used in this atlas was determined by working backwards from the position of Pyrgos (C6950), which is known. Renfrew [2011] gives the position of Pyrgos as 630, 290 and the position for Kostos suggested by him is 635, 382. Renfrew has used positions based on the 1:50,000, AEGEAN Series maps issued by the Geographical Section, General Starr, no. 4468. These were issued in 1944 and were not available to me. The reference system is, however, easy to understand. The coordinates are meter offsets from some origin in lon/lat form. For example the position of Kostos relative to Pyrgos (as I said, this position is known) is 500 m. E and 9200 m. N. This should be sufficient to give the position of Kostos (keeping in mind that it was an estimate by Renfrew) to within 100 m.

2. Page numbers in Renfrew [2011] are, in actuality, location numbers in the electronic edition, ISBN 978-1-78570-773-5.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Renfrew [2011]: Renfrew, Colin. The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millenium BC. Oxbow Books. Second ed., 2011 (First edition 1972), '9. Kostos', pg. 11318. Online here.

2. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'Kostos', pg. 320. Online here.