Controls Help Blog
Site details

Koukourotrypa Cave

PKC5277
TITLEKoukourotrypa Cave
WGS84 36.575908° N, 22.391246° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 36.575908, 22.391246
LON/LAT 22.391246, 36.575908

DMS 36° 34' 33.2688" N,22° 23' 28.4856" E

W3Wsuppress, silt, legwork
UTM34 S, 624475, 4048729
EGSA87 355913, 4048744

Elevation m51
Elevation feet 167.3
RegionLaconia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Sherds

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009], 8    '...parts of closed unpainted EH vessels of orange clay ...', ' ...body fragments of pots ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009]: 8, '...parts of closed unpainted EH vessels of orange clay ...'

2. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009]: 8, '...which preserves traces of a black band at the base of the neck, probably belong to the MH period.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Efstathiou-Manolakou [2009]:  Efstathiou-Manolakou, Ioanna. ‘Archaeological investigations in the caves of Laconia’, British School at Athens Studies (16), Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-Modern, pp. 5-20. 2009., '', pg. 8. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5277 is at 36.57447° N, 22.38706° E, a straight-line distance of 406.9 m.