PKey Report

PK	C5702
TITLE	Gournia
WGS84	35.109537° N, 25.792624° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.109537, 25.792624
LON/LAT	25.792624, 35.109537

DMS

35° 6' 34.3332" N

25° 47' 33.4464" E

W3W	issuers, coriander, fends
UTM	35 S, 389969, 3885857
EGSA87	663222, 3886372

Elevation m	40
Elevation feet	131.2
Region	Crete
Subregion	Ierapetra

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1. hab. Langohr [2009], 90 'Habitat'

2. hab. Kanta [1980], 139 'The LM III occupation of the town of Gournia is not very well known, ...'

3. hab. Myers et al. [1992], 104 'Gournia is the most completely excavated Minoan lowland town.'

4.    Settlement.   Vavouranakis [2007], 28    'Settlement'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan IIA: (2650 BC - 2450 BC)

    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 104 ' ... scattered traces of EM IIA - IIB pottery, ... '

2. Early Minoan IIB: (2450 BC - 2200 BC)

    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 104 ' ... scattered traces of EM IIA - IIB pottery, ... '

3. Early Minoan III: (2200 BC - 2100 BC)

    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 104 'EM III ...; pottery dump in North Trench.'

4. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)

    a.    Myers et al. [1992]: 104 'MM .. Probably occupation then as intensive as in LM I ... '

5. Middle Minoan IB: (1900 BC - 1850 BC)

    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 28 'MM IA-B First town'

6. Middle Minoan II: (1850 BC - 1750 BC)

    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 28 'MM IA-B First town'

7. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)

    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 28 'MM III - LM I Main town/"palace"'

    b.    Myers et al. [1992]: 104 'MM III - LM I ... continued use of cemetery, with pithos burials.'

8. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)

    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 28 'MM III -LM I Main town/"palace"'

    b.    Myers et al. [1992]: 104 'LM I Grand official house ...'

9. Late Minoan IB: (1625 BC - 1470 BC)

    a.    Langohr [2009]: 90 ' ... sa destruction à la fin du MR IB.'

10. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)

    a.    Vavouranakis [2007]: 28 LM III 'Partial reuse of town'

    b.    Kanta [1980]: 139 '...the LM III settlement extended to the west side of the hill...'

    c.    Langohr [2009]: 90 'Deux des maisons MR III clairement identifiées sont la grande maison Eh 49-54 et la maison Ei 55-56, ...'

11. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)

    a.    Kanta [1980]: 139 'The conical cup no. 4 has a spreading rim with a band around it and a trickle motif - these were very common in the III A 2 ...'

    b.    Langohr [2009]: 90 'Sa réoccupation au cours des MR IIIA2 et MR IIIB ...'

    c.    Myers et al. [1992]: 104 'LM IIIA2 - IIIB Resettlement, include ashlar House He at south end of Town Court ...'

12. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)

    a.    Kanta [1980]: 140 'The Gournia reoccupation, to judge by its surviving vases, should be dated to an early stage of III B.'

    b.    Langohr [2009]: 90 'Sa réoccupation au cours des MR IIIA2 et MR IIIB ...'

    c.    Myers et al. [1992]: 104 'LM IIIA2 - IIIB Resettlement, include ashlar House He at south end of Town Court ...'

NOTES

1. Vavouranakis [2007] 30, Fig. 2.18 provides a fine ground plan of the Gournia settlement.

2. Find the project web site at http://www.gournia.org and a nice collection of photographs and drawings at http://www.gournia.org/tour-1.php.

rhc

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Kanta [1980]: Kanta, Athanasia. The Late Minoan III Period in Crete; A Survey of Sites, Pottery and their Distribution. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg. Sweden. 1980., '8. Gournia', pg. 139.

2. Langohr [2009]: Langohr, Charlotte. PERIPHEREIA: Étude régionale de la Crète aux Minoen Récent II-IIIB (1450-1200 av. J.-C.) 1 | La Crète centrale et occidentale, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Belgium, 2009., '2.3.4. Gournia', pg. 89. Online here.

3. Myers et al. [1992]: Myers, J. Wilson and Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan. The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles. United States of America. 1992., '13 Gournia', pg. 104.

4. Vavouranakis [2007]: Vavouranakis, Giorgos. Funerary Landscapes East of Lasithi, Crete, in the Bronze Age. BAR International Series, no. 1606, 2007, 'Gournia; The topograhical framework', pg. 26. Online here.