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Minoan site, Vasiliki in the municipality of Ierapetra on CreteAzoria

Location:

  • Greece, Pacheía Ámmos
  • geo:35.113586,25.792845
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -3300 / -800

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=30975

Annotations

Rock shelters have been the earliest form of burial.

Sources:

  1. Jeffrey S. Soles, The Prepalatial Cemeteries at Mochlos and Gournia and the House Tombs of Bronze Age Crete,Hesperia Supplement XXIV, ASCSA, 1992, pp. 36-38
  2. Jeffrey S. Soles, The Prepalatial Cemeteries at Mochlos and Gournia and the House Tombs of Bronze Age Crete,Hesperia Supplement XXIV, ASCSA, 1992
  3. http://www.minoancrete.com/gournia_cemetery.htm

Nearby

Sphoungaras, Tomb VII

Bronze Age cemetery at Gournia

Sphoungaras, Tomb I

Bronze Age cemetery at Gournia

Sphoungaras, Tomb III

Bronze Age cemetery at Gournia


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