Site details

Krasi: Armi

PK	C5120
TITLE	Krasi: Armi
WGS84	35.231556° N, 25.467497° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.231556, 25.467497
LON/LAT	25.467497, 35.231556

DMS

35° 13' 53.6016" N

25° 28' 2.9892" E

W3W	receives, dwindled, shekel
UTM	35 S, 360546, 3899798
EGSA87	633390, 3899420

Elevation m	669
Elevation feet	2194.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Lasithi

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2000], 154    'Here was located an important MM-LM settlement, ...'

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 154,  Size: 2400 sq. m.  'The Dark Age pottery is not very numerous and is scattered over an area of c. 60 by 40 m.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: , 'FN II - EM I sherds, with red to light red surface and yellowish-grey core were occasionally seen in the middle of the northern slope and on the summit.'

2. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 180, 'FN II - EM I sherds, with red to light red surface and yellowish-grey core were occasionally seen in the middle of the northern slope and on the summit.'

3. Early Minoan II: (2650 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 180, ' ... supports the identification of a proper settlement that originated in the FN period, but continued through EM I and probably EM II.'

4. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 154, 'In the lower part of the northern slope MM and LM material preominates ...'

5. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 155, '..., LM I, ...'

6. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 154, '...are many sherds dating to the LM IIIC-PG period, ...'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 180, 'The hill was also occupied during the MM and LM III C - PG periods, ... '

7. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 154, '...are many sherds dating to the LM IIIC-PG period, ...'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 180, 'The hill was also occupied during the MM and LM III C - PG periods, ... '

8. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 155, ..., G?', '..., and a few which may be even later (Geometric?).'

NOTE

1. Nowicki [2000] defines the term 'Dark Age' on p. 16: 'The label Dark Age as a general historical term seems to be better than both Protogeometric and Early Iron Age and I will use it in that context when appropriate in this book. ... In Crete the best absolute dating would be very late LM IIIB to the early Geometric, i.e. some decades before 1200 (1230?) to c. 800 B.C.'

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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., '65. Krasi Armi', pg. 154.

2. Nowicki [2014]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '101 Krasi Armi', pg. 180. Online here.