Site details

Loutro: Karatsadhes

PK	C306
TITLE	Loutro: Karatsadhes
WGS84	37.260198° N, 22.006826° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	37.260198, 22.006826
LON/LAT	22.006826, 37.260198

DMS

37° 15' 36.7128" N

22° 0' 24.5736" E

W3W	cooker, baubles, darkroom
UTM	34 S, 589278, 4124213
EGSA87	323102, 4125311

Elevation m	110
Elevation feet	360.9
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Grave.   Boyd [2001], 107    'middle Helladic graves.', 'A number of cist graves was exposed in 1947 by stream diversion, but these have since been covered again.'
2.    Mound.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 170    'A very low mound c. 200 m. in diameter, c. 800 m. E of Loutro and immediately N of the Xerias river.'
3.    Mound.   Messenia I, 235    'Perhaps there was originally a low mound ... '
4.    Mound.   McDonald and Rapp [1972], 292    'Very low mound(?) ca. 200 m. diam.'
5.    Sherds.   Messenia I, 235    'Frgs. of large pithoi of reddish "oatmeal" ware and other coarse fabrics (EH? or MH?); ... '

SITE SIZE

- Boyd [1999]  p. ,  Size: 40000 sq. m.

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Messenia I: 235, 'This was probably a small EH-MH site.'
    b.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 292, 'EH?'
    c.    Boyd [2001]: 108, 'EH-MH'

2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Messenia I: 235, 'This was probably a small EH-MH site.'
    b.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 292, 'MH?'
    c.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 170, 'Much MH coarse ware including incised was found here and remains of slab-covered cist graves.'
    d.    Boyd [2001]: 108, 'EH-MH'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Messenia I: 235, Its continuation in LH is less certain.
    b.    McDonald and Rapp [1972]: 292, 'LH?'

NOTE

1. This point was placed notionally 500 m ESE of the center of Loutro and just N of the river. The area of scatter is so large (200 x 200 m) that this should be of some utility. A rectangle 200 m. square is 40,000 sq. m. in area. This area is equal to that of a circle 112.8 m. in radius. Such a circle centered on the marker should include at least part of this site.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Boyd [2001]: Boyd, Michael John. Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Mortuary Practices In The Southern And Western Peloponnese. 2001, '9: Karatsádhes Loutró', pg. 107. Online here.

2. McDonald and Rapp [1972]: McDonald, William A. and George R. Rapp, Jr.. The Minnesota Messenia Expedition: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Regional Environment. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota. USA. 1972, '209 (32) Loutro: Karatsadhes', pg. 292.

3. 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., '32. Karatsadhes (Loutro)', pg. 235. Online here.

4. Simpson [2014]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos. Philadelphia:Instap Academic Press, 2014. , 'Loutro: Karatsadhes', pg. 27.

5. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Appendix to Map F: Part I (Fieldwork)', pg. 142. Online here.

6. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'D 209 Loutro: Karatsadhes', pg. 170. Online here.