Site details

Milatos: Kastellos

PK	C4496
TITLE	Milatos: Kastellos
WGS84	35.316461° N, 25.581006° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.316461, 25.581006
LON/LAT	25.581006, 35.316461

DMS

35° 18' 59.2596" N

25° 34' 51.6216" E

W3W	lentils, soundest, applies
UTM	35 S, 371010.54, 3909061.79
EGSA87	643569, 3908996

Elevation m	98
Elevation feet	321.5
Region	Crete
Subregion	Mirabello

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    acropolis.   Nowicki [2014], 184    'This was a small "acropolis" used intensively during the Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and later periods.'
2.    Fortification.   Nowicki [2014], 184    ' ... may have been only an upper "citadel" complemented by a lower settlement at its western foot.'
3.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 171    'The main Dark Age settlement, ..., was located on the steep (terraced) western slope...'
4.    Sherds.   Nowicki [2014], 184    'Such a reconstruction is supported by a few FN II - EM I sherds found on the western slopes below Kastello.'

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 171,  Size: 12000 sq. m.  'LM IIIC pottery has been recorded over an area of c. 150 by 80 m, ...'

- Nowicki [2014]  p. 184,  Size: 1000 sq. m.  'It covered an area ca. 40 by 25 m ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 184, 'This was a small "acropolis" used intensively during the Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and later periods.'

2. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 184, 'Such a reconstruction is supported by a few FN II - EM I sherds found on the western slopes below Kastello.'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 184, ' ... no room for doubt that the hill was an important defensible FN II - EM I settlement.'

3. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 184, ' ... no room for doubt that the hill was an important defensible FN II - EM I settlement.', 'Such a reconstruction is supported by a few FN II - EM I sherds found on the western slopes below Kastello.'

4. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 171, '...founded by newcomers at the turn of the thirteenth century B.C. in LM IIIB/C, ...'

5. Early Iron Age: (1200 BC - 960 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 184, 'This was a small "acropolis" used intensively during the Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and later periods.'

6. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 171, 'LM IIIC pottery has been recorded over an area of ...'

7. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 171, '...PG, ...'

8. Subminoan: (1060 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 171, '..., SM, ...'

9. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 171, '..., G, ...'

10. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 171, '..., A, ...'

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., '71. Milatos Kastellos', pg. 170.

2. Nowicki [2014]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '109 Milatos Kastello', pg. 184. Online here.