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Agia Paraskevi Kefali

PKC7461
TITLEAgia Paraskevi Kefali
WGS84 35.087807° N, 26.215167° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.087807, 26.215167
LON/LAT 26.215167, 35.087807

DMS 35° 5' 16.1052" N,26° 12' 54.6012" E

W3Wairliners, poultry, gales
UTM35 S, 428458.51, 3883062.27
EGSA87 701790, 3884736

Elevation m302
Elevation feet 990.8
RegionCrete
SubregionSiteia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Building.   Nowicki [2014], 111    ' ...; some architectural remains can be seen here.'
2.    Lithics.   Nowicki [2014], 112    'In the walls, as well as in stone tumbles around them, a number of prehistoric ground stone tools were noted, including fragments of saddle querns and pounders ... '
3.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2014], 111    'FN II - EM I pottery is scattered on the surface of three terraces.'
4.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2014], 112    'The EM I settlement may have been restricted only to the highest terrace.'


SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2014]  p. 123,  Size: 2000 sq. m.  'The highest one (terrace, RHC) is about 40 by 50 m in size; ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 111, 'FN II - EM I pottery is scattered on the surface of three terraces.'
    b.    Nowicki [2014]: 111, 'The pottery is mostly of EM I early date. Some sherds are EM II and even MM, ... '

2. Early Minoan II: (2650 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 111, 'The pottery is mostly of EM I early date. Some sherds are EM II and even MM, ... '

3. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 111, 'The pottery is mostly of EM I early date. Some sherds are EM II and even MM, ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Nowicki [2014]:  Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '33 Agia Paraskevi Kefali', pg. 111. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C7461 is at 35.06493° N, 26.24637° E, a straight-line distance of 3 km and 805 m.