Site details

Yrtakina

PK	C7514
TITLE	Yrtakina
WGS84	35.279539° N, 23.750184° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	35.279539, 23.750184
LON/LAT	23.750184, 35.279539

DMS

35° 16' 46.3404" N

23° 45' 0.6624" E

W3W	giver, sidestep, supernatural
UTM	34 S, 750134.61, 3907512.41
EGSA87	477133, 3903783

Elevation m	880
Elevation feet	2887.1
Region	Crete
Subregion	Selino

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2014], 224    ' ..., may indicate that this was a large and important settlement during the FN - EM I period.'
2.    Sherds.   Nowicki [2014], 224    'Several FN II and EM I sherds were seen in the highest part of this large EIA - Hellenistic town, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic: (3600 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 224, ' ..., may indicate that this was a large and important settlement during the FN - EM I period.'

2. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 224, ' ..., may indicate that this was a large and important settlement during the FN - EM I period.'

3. Early Iron Age: (1200 BC - 960 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 224, ' ... the highest part of this large EIA - Hellenistic town, ... '

NOTE

1. For more (particularly later periods) see

Lauffer, Siegfried, Griechenland; Lexikon des historischen Stätten; Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, 1999, s.v. 'Hyrtakina'.
Hansen, Mogens Herman and Thomas Heine Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford. 2004, s.v. '963. Hyrtakina'.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Nowicki [2014]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '149 Yrtakina', pg. 224. Online here.