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Voni Modi

PKC7478
TITLEVoni Modi
WGS84 35.187042° N, 25.249336° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.187042, 25.249336
LON/LAT 25.249336, 35.187042

DMS 35° 11' 13.3512" N,25° 14' 57.6096" E

W3Wthose, chewier, marigold
UTM35 S, 340604.98, 3895189.14
EGSA87 613599, 3894212

Elevation m397
Elevation feet 1302.5
RegionCrete
SubregionPedhiadha





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2014], 186    'FN II pottery was identified by N. Panagiotakis on the hill of Modi, ... '


SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2014]  p. 186,  Size: 2376 sq. m.  ' ... over an area ca. 50 - 60 m in diameter.' Using 27.5 as radius.

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 186, 'Though Papadatos and Tomkins date all the pottery to the FN II period, ... '

2. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 186, 'The continuation of the site into EM I is also supported by a fragment of a pedestal bowl and ... ', ' ..., the "cheese pots" with light burnished or slipped surface may indicate the early EM I date for part of the pottery assemblage.'

NOTE

1.  For additional reading and a detailed discussion of the pottery of Voni Modhi:
  • Papadatos and Tomkins [2011]: Papadatos, Yiannis and Peter Tomkins. 'Final Neolithic and Early Minoan Pottery from the Pediada Survey', ΠΕΠΡΑΓΜΕΝΑ Ι’ ΔΙΕΘΝΟΥΣ ΚΡΗΤΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟΥ, Τομος Α2 ΠΡΟΪΣΤΟΡΙΚΟΙ ΧΡΟΝΟΙ, ΦΙΛΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΣ ΣΥΛΛΟΓΟΣ «Ο ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΣ» ΧΑΝΙΑ 2011, pp. 729-742. Online here.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Nowicki [2014]:  Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '112 Voni Modi', pg. 186. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C7478 is at 35.33051° N, 25.23568° E, a straight-line distance of 15 km and 968 m.