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Mali: Lower Town

PKC785
TITLEMali: Lower Town
WGS84 38.251028° N, 22.904353° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 38.251028, 22.904353
LON/LAT 22.904353, 38.251028

DMS 38° 15' 3.7008" N,22° 54' 15.6708" E

W3Wtruncate, jumping, prance
UTM34 S, 666633, 4235382
EGSA87 403983, 4233948

Elevation m272
Elevation feet 892.4
RegionBoeotia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Fossey and Morin [1989], 169    '...contains many of the elements of a city: a fortified akropolis, a lower settlement of many houses with a simple urban plan, an outer circuit wall surrounding this lower town, some open spaces within for shelter of herds (or place of assembly?), and at least one shrine.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Fossey and Morin [1989]: 169, '...that occupation began in LHIIIB or IIIC and ran essentially to Late Geometric ...'

2. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Fossey and Morin [1989]: 169, '...that occupation began in LHIIIB or IIIC and ran essentially to Late Geometric ...'

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Fossey and Morin [1989]: 169, '...that occupation began in LHIIIB or IIIC and ran essentially to Late Geometric ...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Fossey and Morin [1989]:  Fossey, John M. and Jacques Morin. ‘The Khostia Project: Excavation and Survey’, Fossey et al. [1989] 165-174., '', pg. 169. Part of discussion in section 'Overall Results' on p. 166.

2.  Fossey et al.[1989]:  Fossey, John M., Jacques Morin (eds.). Boeotia Antiqua I; Papers on Recent Work in Boiotian Archaeology and History. J.C. Gieben, Pub., Amsterdam, 1989., '',

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C785 is at 38.23546° N, 22.89541° E, a straight-line distance of 1 km and 901 m.