Site details
Gerakas: Armakas Cave
| PK | C1737 |
| TITLE | Gerakas: Armakas Cave |
| WGS84 | 36.800014° N, 23.05° E |
| Accuracy | 10 m. |
| LAT/LON | 36.800014, 23.05 |
| LON/LAT | 23.05, 36.800014 |
| DMS | 36° 48' 0.0504" N | , | 23° 3' 0" E |
| W3W | plodded, spike, goatees |
| UTM | 34 S, 682889, 4074648 |
| EGSA87 | 415102, 4072820 |
| Elevation m | 148 |
| Elevation feet | 485.6 |
| Region | Laconia |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds
TYPE
1. Sherds. Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009], 11 'The Mycenaean pottery consisted of a few fragments of kylix bases and bowl rims ...'2. Sherds. BCH Online, 4479 '... Middle Helladic pottery consisting largely of handmade coarse and semi-coarse ware and grey Minyan. A very few sherds had plastic, dark on light, or light on dark decoration, and there was one vessel with incised decoration of Adriatic type.'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. EH III: (2200 BC - 2000 BC)
a. Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009]: 11, 'A preliminary examination indicates the vase may be assigned to the chronological horizon of EH III - MH early period.'
2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
a. BCH Online: 4479, '...produced Middle Helladic pottery...'
b. Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009]: 11, '...remains of hearths, fragments of pottery, obsidian tools and food remains, ...'
3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
a. Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009]: 11, 'The Mycenaean pottery consisted of a few fragments of kylix bases and bowl rims ...'
4. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
a. Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009]: 11, '... as well as part of a LH IIIC: early deep bowl ...'
NOTE
1. Position taken from BCH Online, report no. 4479. In Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009] 11 it is said to be '...close to the harbour of Gerakas, identified with the site of ancient Zarax.'
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. BCH Online: Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, 'Armakas Cave, Gerakas.', no. 4479.
Online here.
Online here.
2. Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009]: Efstathiou-Manolakou, Ioanna. ‘Archaeological investigations in the caves of Laconia’, British School at Athens Studies (16), Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-Modern, pp. 5-20. 2009., 'Armakas Cave', pg. 11.
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Online here.