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Lamnoni (Branigan's L30)

PKC7563
TITLELamnoni (Branigan's L30)
WGS84 35.07975° N, 26.175633° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.07975, 26.175633
LON/LAT 26.175633, 35.07975

DMS 35° 4' 47.1" N,26° 10' 32.2788" E

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UTM35 S, 424847.32, 3882197.82
EGSA87 698205, 3883763

Elevation m665
Elevation feet 2181.8
RegionCrete
SubregionSiteia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Hab.   Nowicki [2014], 145    '" ... small houses with light superstructures, perhaps erected on stone foundations."'
2.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2014], 145    'The pottery, of the Red Ware Fabric Group, ... '
3.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2014], 145    'Branigan interprets this site as follows " ... an occupation site ... used by no more than four or five households, living in small houses with light superstructures, perhaps erected on stone foundations."'


SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2014]  p. 145,  Size: 4800 sq. m.  'Thus the total size of the site may be estimated as at least 80 by 60 m.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 145, 'A dense scatter of FN II sherds in Branigan's field 30 ... '

2. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 145, 'That characteristic may indicate somewhat later occupation, FN II/EM I early.'

NOTE

1.  For the position of square L 30 see Branigan et al. [1998] 36, Fig. 8.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Branigan et al. [1998]:  Branigan, Keith with Tristan Carter and Peter O'Connor. ‘Prehistoric and Early Historic Settlement in the Ziros Region, Eastern Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (93), pp. 23-90., '', Online here.

2.  Nowicki [2014]:  Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '60 Lamnoni (Branigan's Site L30)', pg. 145. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C7563 is at 35.03517° N, 26.2165° E, a straight-line distance of 6 km and 184 m.