Site details

Apodhoulou: Gournes

PK	C5612
TITLE	Apodhoulou: Gournes
WGS84	35.160957° N, 24.722995° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.160957, 24.722995
LON/LAT	24.722995, 35.160957

DMS

35° 9' 39.4452" N

24° 43' 22.782" E

W3W	glucose, waggles, thermostats
UTM	35 S, 292609, 3893267
EGSA87	565697, 3890843

Elevation m	299
Elevation feet	981
Region	Crete
Subregion	Amari

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    House.   Dunbabin [1947], 188    'M.M. III house excavated by Marinatos, ...', 'Further M.M. houses excavated by Jantzen in 1942', 'There is a considerable settlement of the M.M. III-L.M. I periods.'
2.    Settlement.   Hood et al. [1964], 78    'Minoan settlement in the valley below the village about 1 km. to the north-west.'

SITE SIZE

- Hood et al. [1964]  p. 78,  Size: 22500 sq. m.  'Traces of occupation cover an area of about 150 x 150 m. ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 78, '...Pendlebury claims to have seen E.M. sherds here ...'

2. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Dunbabin [1947]: 188, 'Further M.M. houses ...'

3. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 78, '...; but the finds from the excavations are all ascribed to M.M. III - L.M. I...'
    b.    Dunbabin [1947]: 188, 'M.M. III house...'

4. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 78, '...; but the finds from the excavations are all ascribed to M.M. III - L.M. I...'
    b.    Dunbabin [1947]: 188, '...settlement of the M.M. III - L.M. I periods.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Dunbabin [1947]: Dunbabin, T.J.. ‘Antiquities of Amari’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (42), pp. 184-193, 1947., '40. Site south of village: ...', pg. 188. Online here.

2. Hood et al. [1964]: Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren, Gerald Cadogan . ‘Travels in Crete, 1962’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (59), pp. 50-99, 1964., '32. Apodhoulou; (3) 'Gournes'', pg. 78. Online here.