Αρχαιολογική τοποθεσία
Type: Necropolis
Geographical area: Crete → Lassithi → Gulf of Mirabello
Chronological Period: From SM/EPG to LG/EA
Date: From 10th c. BC, 1st half to 7th c. BC, 1st half, 1st quarter.
Overall Phases of Use: -
Minimum Total Number of Burials: 3, of which
adults: unknown
subadults: unknown
children: 3
Contributors: A. Kotsonas
2 child burials in jars were found beneath the floors of two houses on the upper settlement, and a third one in a cave-like recess ca. 100 m N of the settlement. Hall considered these burials G, but recent research favors a date towards the beginning of the EIA.
Records
- 1912-1913: Systematic Excavation by E.H. Hall (University of Pensylvania)
References: Primary
- Hall, E.H. 1914, Excavations in Eastern Crete: Vrokastro, Philadelphia: 106–107
- Hall, E.H. 1914, Excavations in Eastern Crete: Vrokastro, Philadelphia, 112–
- Hall, E.H. 1914, Excavations in Eastern Crete: Vrokastro, Philadelphia, 117–118
- Hayden, B. J. 2003. Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete. Volume 1: Catalogue of Pottery from the Bronze and Early Iron Age Settlement of Vrokastro in the Collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Archaeological Museum, Herakleion, Crete, Philadelphia: 48–
References: Secondary
- Eaby, M.S. 2007. Mortuary variability in Early Iron Age Cretan burials, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 45–46
Written Sources
- None
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