PKey Report
PKC7425
TITLESellia: Kastellos
WGS84 35.202318° N, 24.380675° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.202318, 24.380675
LON/LAT 24.380675, 35.202318

DMS 35° 12' 8.3448" N,24° 22' 50.43" E

W3Whovered, purchases, bonus
UTM35 S, 261543.98, 3898623.11
EGSA87 534503, 3895257

Elevation m289
Elevation feet 948.2
RegionCrete
SubregionHagios Vasileios







GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Lithics.   Nowicki [2014], 216    ' ... and ground stone tools were noted on the surface ... '

2.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2014], 216    'The pottery has red and reddish-brown fabrics (the Red Ware Fabric Group), better fired than typical FN II examples ... '

3.    Pottery.   Hood and Warren [1966], 185    ' ...; but some of the fragments evidently came from small pots, others from very large thick-walled vases.'

4.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2014], 216    'Hood and Warren identified a "Neolithic or Early Minoan site" here.'

5.    Settlement.   Hood and Warren [1966], 185    'Extensive Neolithic or Early Minoan site ... '

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2014]  p. 216,  Size: 10000 sq. m.  'The size of the actual settlement may be estimated at about 10,000 m2.'



PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)

    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 216, 'The settlement started at some stage of the FN II and continued through the early EM I period.'

2. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)

    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 185, ' ... or Early Minoan.'

3. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 216, 'The settlement started at some stage of the FN II and continued through the early EM I period.'

4. Early Minoan II: (2650 BC - 2200 BC)

    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 185, Some of the fragments resemble pieces from Trapeza of the EM II or III.

5. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)

    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 185, Some of the fragments resemble pieces from Trapeza of the EM II or III.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Hood and Warren [1966]:  Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren. ‘Ancient Sites in the Province of Ayios Vasilios, Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (61) pp. 163-191, 1966., '31. Sellia: 'Kastellos'', pg. 185. Online here.

2.  Nowicki [2014]:  Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '140 Sellia Kastellos', pg. 216. Online here.