Site details

Kato Samiko: Mounds

PK	C303
TITLE	Kato Samiko: Mounds
WGS84	37.530016° N, 21.591212° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.530016, 21.591212
LON/LAT	21.591212, 37.530016

DMS

37° 31' 48.0576" N

21° 35' 28.3632" E

W3W	secures, predictions, enormous
UTM	34 S, 552237, 4153836
EGSA87	287006, 4156110

Elevation m	3
Elevation feet	9.8
Region	Triphylia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Mound.   Boyd [2001], 186

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Boyd [2001]: 187, Mound 3

2. Middle Helladic III: (1775 BC - 1700 BC)
    a.    Boyd [2001]: 187, Mounds 2, 3

3. Late Helladic II: (1635 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Boyd [2001]: 187, '...two items associated with one of the altars (Mound 2, RHC), dated LHII.'

4. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Boyd [2001]: 187, Mound 1

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Boyd [2001]: Boyd, Michael John. Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Mortuary Practices In The Southern And Western Peloponnese. 2001, ''45: Káto Samikó Klidhí'', pg. 186. Mounds 1-4 and the Tholos Tomb, mound 5
Online here.

2. Messenia I: McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Habitation in Southwestern Peloponnese’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul., 1961), pp. 221-260., '19. Klidhi (Derveni)', pg. 230. Online here.