Site details

Kythera: Pyreatides

PK	C7084
TITLE	Kythera: Pyreatides
WGS84	36.364419° N, 22.945669° E
Accuracy	Unknown

LAT/LON	36.364419, 22.945669
LON/LAT	22.945669, 36.364419

DMS

36° 21' 51.9084" N

22° 56' 44.4084" E

W3W	noticing, mistake, organism
UTM	34 S, 674558.24, 4026126.8
EGSA87	405264, 4024597

Elevation m	101
Elevation feet	331.4
Region	Kythera

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Lithics.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 123    ' ... obsidian were found ... '
2.    Lithics.   Laconia II, 149    ' ... obsidian chips'
3.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 123    'EH II sherds and ... '
4.    Sherds.   Laconia II, 149    ' ..., there are caves in the white limestone rock, and outside of them E.H. sherds and ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Laconia II: , ' ... E.H. sherds and obsidian chips.'

2. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 123, 'EH II sherds ... '

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Laconia II: 149, 'There may have been scattered E.H. settlement here (and possibly also L.H.), but the position is isolated, and the land very poor.'

NOTES

1. Placement is notional. Marker was placed about 2 km. N. of Karavas on the path to Moudari Light.

2. With, perhaps, supplementary sherds and lithics to be found another km. to the north near 36.373397 N, 22.944505 E.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'C 55 Kythera: Pyreatides', pg. 122. Online here.

2. Laconia II: Waterhouse, Helen and R. Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Laconia: Part II’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 56, pp. 114-175, 1961, 'Pyreatides', pg. 149. Online here.