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Dreros

PKC2618
TITLEDreros
WGS84 35.256549° N, 25.628802° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.256549, 25.628802
LON/LAT 25.628802, 35.256549

DMS 35° 15' 23.5764" N,25° 37' 43.6872" E

W3Wbiographies, pave, gals
UTM35 S, 375264, 3902356
EGSA87 648024, 3902421

Elevation m450
Elevation feet 1476.4
RegionCrete
SubregionMirabello





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    hab.   Nowicki [2000], 173    'Dreros belongs to the group of the best known Geometric-Archaic Cretan towns...'
2.    settlement.   Myers et al. [1992], 86    'Dreros is a remarkable small inland city of east central Crete, ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 173, 'The earliest finds known to date from the area of Driros come from Tomb 1, which yielded LM IIIC-SM pots.'
    b.    Myers et al. [1992]: 89, 'VI. Buildings LM IIIC and G About twenty-five ossuaries ... and pithos burials inside a rectangular circuit wall.'

2. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 173, 'Other tombs represent the PG and G periods.'

3. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 173, 'The earliest finds known to date from the area of Driros come from Tomb 1, which yielded LM IIIC-SM pots.'

4. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 173, 'Other tombs represent the PG and G periods.'
    b.    Myers et al. [1992]: 89, 'VI. Buildings LM IIIC and G About twenty-five ossuaries ... and pithos burials inside a rectangular circuit wall.'
    c.    Myers et al. [1992]: 89, 'Delphinion temple, ...'

5. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 173, 'Geometric-Archaic temples were unearthed by Xanthoudides and Marinatos ...'
    b.    Myers et al. [1992]: 89, 'Agora beside temple, ...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Myers et al. [1992]:  Myers, J. Wilson and Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. United States of America. 1992., '10 Dreros', pg. 86.

2.  Nowicki [2000]:  Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '73. Dreros', pg. 173.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C2618 is at 35.26246° N, 25.7217° E, a straight-line distance of 8 km and 443 m.