Site details

Franchthi Cave

PK	C887
TITLE	Franchthi Cave
WGS84	37.422592° N, 23.131103° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.422592, 23.131103
LON/LAT	23.131103, 37.422592

DMS

37° 25' 21.3312" N

23° 7' 51.9708" E

W3W	feasibility, pushback, episode
UTM	34 S, 688574, 4143885
EGSA87	422969, 4141820

Elevation m	8
Elevation feet	26.2
Region	Argolid

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cave

TYPE

1.    hab.   Jameson et al. [1994], 468    'Ca. 0.5 ha (small); ...', 'Habitation; village; shrine; animal fold.'
2.    Sherds.   Foley [1988], 180    'Hope-Simpson and Dickinson mention that LH, G, C and H sherds were found in and around the cave.'
3.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 31    '.. and others were found on the surface in and around the Franchthi cave ...'

SITE SIZE

- Jameson et al. [1994]  p. 468,  Size: 5000 sq. m.  'Ca. 0.5 ha (small); ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH I: (3100 BC - 2700 BC)
    a.    Jameson et al. [1994]: 468, '(EHI)'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 31, 'LH (including LH IIIB) C'
    b.    Jameson et al. [1994]: 468, '... the upper level of the deposit contained small numbers of LH ... sherds.'
    c.    Foley [1988]: 179, 'N LH G A ... '

3. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Jameson et al. [1994]: 468, ' ..., the upper level of the deposit contained small numbers of LH, Geometric, Greek, ..., ... sherds.'
    b.    Foley [1988]: 179, 'N LH G A ... '

4. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Foley [1988]: 179, 'N LH G A ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Foley [1988]: Foley, Anne. The Argolid 800-600 B.C.: An Archaeological Survey : Together with an Index of Sites from the Neolithic to the Roman Period. Göteborg : P. Åströms Förlag, 1988., 'Franchthi Cave and Hill', pg. 179.

2. Jameson et al. [1994]: Jameson, Michael H, Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel. A Greek Countryside; The Southern Argolid from Prehistory to the Present Day. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. 1994., 'C13. Franchthi Cave.', pg. 468.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'A 43 Koiladha: Ayios Ioannis', pg. 31. Online here.