Site details

Petras Kefala

PK	C7575
TITLE	Petras Kefala
WGS84	35.196917° N, 26.117983° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.196917, 26.117983
LON/LAT	26.117983, 35.196917

DMS

35° 11' 48.9012" N

26° 7' 4.7388" E

W3W	chafing, elegance, quotations
UTM	35 S, 419706.71, 3895237
EGSA87	692672, 3896647

Elevation m	61
Elevation feet	200.1
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Buildings.   Nowicki [2014], 154    'The first one, dated to the FN II period, was represented by poor remains of a rectilinear building, ... '
2.    Lithics.   Nowicki [2014], 155    'The chipped stone industry, as represented by very rich material from the eroded eastern slope, was based on obsidian.'
3.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2014], 155    'FN II pottery is represented by the Red Ware and the Calcite-Tempered Fabric Group.'
4.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2014], 154    'Petras Kefala was the main and the largest settlement in the entire Siteia coastal plan, ... '

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2014]  p. 154,  Size: 10000 sq. m.  'Thus, the entire area occupied by the FN II-EM I settlement may be estimated for at least 10,000 m².'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic I: (3600 - 3200)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 155, ' ... a small amount of earlier material (FN I) ... '

2. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 155, 'FN II pottery is represented by the Red Ware and the Calcite-Tempered Fabric Group.'

3. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 154, 'Two other phases with curvilinear and rectilinear structures were dated by the excavators to the early EM I period; ... ', ' ..., the second EM I phase ... ', ' ... represented by EM I pottery similar to that from Vainia Stavromenos on Crete, and again from Moulas and Sikelao, on Karpathos.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Nowicki [2014]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '73 Petras Kefala', pg. 154. Online here.