Site details

Vainia Stavromenos (Area D)

PK	C4261
TITLE	Vainia Stavromenos (Area D)
WGS84	35.024148° N, 25.780099° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.024148, 25.780099
LON/LAT	25.780099, 35.024148

DMS

35° 1' 26.9328" N

25° 46' 48.3564" E

W3W	doormat, hopes, atoned
UTM	35 S, 388711.83, 3876401
EGSA87	662250, 3876880

Elevation m	146
Elevation feet	479
Region	Crete
Subregion	Ierapetra

GENERAL SITE TYPE Artifacts

TYPE

1.    hab.   Nowicki [2000], 86    'Area D, which consists of two terraces, is probably the best preserved part of the site.'
2.    Lithics.   Nowicki [2014], 164    'Chipped stone is very numerous at Vainia Stavromenos and consists mainly of obsidian, ... ', ' ... the vast majority of obsidian is from Melos, ... '
3.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2014], 164    'The Vainia pottery is mostly red to reddish-brown in colour, sometimes burnished, but mostly only roughly smoothed, and in a hard fabric with a dark grey to black core or, in the case of well fired pots, with a core of the same colour as the surface.'

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2014]  p. 161,  Size: 15000 sq. m.  'The entire size of the settlement must have been about 15,000 m2, and thus Vainia Stavromenos should be classified among the largest FN sites of this type.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 163, ' ... FN II and early EM I pottery ... '

2. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 87, 'The extent of EM I-IIA material ...'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 163, ' ... FN II and early EM I pottery ... '

3. Early Minoan IIA: (2650 BC - 2450 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 87, 'The extent of EM I-IIA material ...'

4. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 87, '..., namely very late LM IIIB and LM IIIC.'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 161, 'It is possible that the FN - EM I settlement extended to the north beyond the border of the LM IIIB - IIIC site.'

5. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 87, '..., namely very late LM IIIB and LM IIIC.'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 161, 'It is possible that the FN - EM I settlement extended to the north beyond the border of the LM IIIB - IIIC site.'

6. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 87, 'Only a few examples may point to the very late LM IIIC or early PG.'

NOTE

1. Here I am letting a part stand for the whole. This is a complex site with at least four components from A to D. A is by the chapel at the top of this hill. See Nowicki [2000] 86-87 and especially fig. 38 on p. 88. Contributed by Professor S. Murray, University of Toronto.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. 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., '25. Vainia Stavromenos', pg. 86.

2. Nowicki [2014]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '82 Vainia Stavromenos', pg. 161. Online here.