Site details

Gonies: Porolios

PK	C4494
TITLE	Gonies: Porolios
WGS84	35.210833° N, 25.444167° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.210833, 25.444167
LON/LAT	25.444167, 35.210833

DMS

35° 12' 38.9988" N

25° 26' 39.0012" E

W3W	patters, sprawl, drive
UTM	35 S, 358387, 3897533
EGSA87	631300, 3897091

Elevation m	580
Elevation feet	1902.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Lasithi

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 150    'An archaeological site was identified on the top of Porolios... The Dark Age settlement consisted of two parts ...'

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 150,  Size: 6000 sq. m.  Maximum. Of the main settlement area Nowicki [2000] 150 says: '...it extended along a strip c. 30 to 40 m wide and 150 m long.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 151, 'Several fragments are of MM II date ...'

2. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 151, '...and even more (sherds, RHC) of MM III-LM I, including several tripod legs ...'

3. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 151, 'Potsherds visible on the surface date primarily to the LM IIIC - PG periods, ...'

4. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 151, 'Potsherds visible on the surface date primarily to the LM IIIC - PG periods, ...'

5. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 151, '..., although a few fragments may be as late as Geometric ...'

NOTE

1. Marker is the refuge area. The actual settlement is just around it and to the S and E. For full discussion of the topography see Nowicki [2000], 150-1, and figs. 82 (p. 151) and 88 (p. 158). In this last Porolios is no. 5. Site contributed by Sarah Murray of the 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., '63. Gonies Porolios', pg. 150.