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Pelos Pyrgaki

PKC6990
TITLEPelos Pyrgaki
WGS84 36.725528° N, 24.496689° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 36.725528, 24.496689
LON/LAT 24.496689, 36.725528

DMS 36° 43' 31.9008" N,24° 29' 48.0804" E

W3Wlynched, pastimes, facelift
UTM35 S, 276446.76, 4067346.4
EGSA87 544203, 4064252

Elevation m117
Elevation feet 383.9
RegionCyclades
SubregionMelos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Hab

TYPE

1.    Hab.   Cherry [1982], 298    'HAB.'
2.    Pottery.   Cherry [1982], 298    'The pottery, almost excclusively characteristic reddish-brown burnished Grotta-Pelos wares, ... '


SITE SIZE

- Cherry [1982]  p. 298,  Size: 4000 sq. m.  'c. 0.4 ha; ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Grotta-Pelos: (3000 BC - 2600 BC)
    a.    Cherry [1982]: 298, 'G - P; ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Cherry [1982]:  Cherry, John F.. ‘Appendix A: Register of Archaeological Sites on Melos’, In Renfrew and Wagstaff[1982] 291 - 309, '38. Melos: Pelos Pyrgaki K976022', pg. 298.

2.  Renfrew and Wagstaff[1982]:  Renfrew, Colin and Malcolm Wagstaff (eds.). An Island Polity; The archaeology of exploitation in Melos. Cambridge University Press. 1982., '',

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6990 is at 36.743° N, 24.47805° E, a straight-line distance of 2 km and 559 m.