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Koufonisi East

PKC7577
TITLEKoufonisi East
WGS84 34.939217° N, 26.153983° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 34.939217, 26.153983
LON/LAT 26.153983, 34.939217

DMS 34° 56' 21.1812" N,26° 9' 14.3388" E

W3Wdeluged, carnivorous, verifying
UTM35 S, 422741.53, 3866629.18
EGSA87 696568, 3868132

Elevation m54
Elevation feet 177.2
RegionCrete
SubregionKouphonissi





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2014], 153    ' ..., a large scatter of FN II pottery was recorded over an area of ca. 150 m in diameter.'
2.    Settlement.   Nowicki [2014], 153    'It may be estimated that the entire coastal strip between the Roman theater and the chapel of Agios Nikolaos was temporarily occupied by people using FN II pottery.'


SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2014]  p. 153,  Size: 17671 sq. m.  Approximate. Nowicki [2014] 153 says ' ... over an area of ca. 150 m in diameter.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 153, 'Here more concentrations of FN II-EM I pottery were recorded.', ' ..., a large scatter of FN II pottery was recorded over an area of ca. 150 m in diameter.'

2. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 153, 'Here more concentrations of FN II-EM I pottery were recorded.'

NOTE

1.  A large area with patches of FN II and EM I occupation. See the discussion of sizes, distances, etc. of these scattered occupation sites in Nowicki [2014] 153.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Nowicki [2014]:  Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '71 Koufonisi East', pg. 153. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C7577 is at 34.93804° N, 26.15554° E, a straight-line distance of 192.9 m.