PKey Report
PKC7907
TITLEAlithini Vigla
WGS84 35.003767° N, 24.888517° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.003767, 24.888517
LON/LAT 24.888517, 35.003767

DMS 35° 0' 13.5612" N,24° 53' 18.6612" E

W3Wurge, shuttling, impedes
UTM35 S, 307317.48, 3875497.97
EGSA87 580927, 3873533

Elevation m392
Elevation feet 1286.1
RegionCrete
SubregionKainourion







GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Buildings.   Nowicki [2018], 26    'Remains of houses, pottery and ground-stone tools can be seen on the surface of the southern highest elevation ... '

2.    Lithics.   Nowicki [2018], 26    'Fragments of quernstones, cobble stone tools and a single chipped stone tool (red chert) were found in the main (upper) part of the site.'

3.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2018], 26    'Remains of houses, pottery and ground-stone tools can be seen on the surface of the southern highest elevation ... '

4.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2018], 26    'Another important and possibly well-preserved settlement of FN II - EM I date ... '

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2018]  p. 26,  Size: 2750 sq. m.  Averaging: 'Altogether, the settlement may have occupied an area of about 2500 to 3000 m2.'



PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)

    a.    Nowicki [2018]: 26, 'Another important and possibly well-preserved settlement of FN II - EM I date ... ', ' ..., there are enough FN II sherds to see the site as founded already in this period ... '

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

    a.    Nowicki [2018]: 26, ' ... (with some limited later EM and MM activity) is situated ... '

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

    a.    Nowicki [2018]: 26, 'Another important and possibly well-preserved settlement of FN II - EM I date ... ', ' ... most of the pottery should be dated to the early EM I period, ... '

4. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)

    a.    Nowicki [2018]: 26, ' ... (with some limited later EM and MM activity) is situated ... '


BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Nowicki [2018]:  Nowicki, Krzysztof. ‘Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean: Supplement 2’, Aegean Archaeology 12 (2018), pp. 7-49, '210. Alithini Vigla', pg. 26. Online here.