Area 317
Main Information
| Area ID | 317 |
| Site |
Azoria |
| Area type | settlement |
| Area NR | |
| Period | Crete/Evans, Vagnetti: Final Neolithic |
| Dating method | material culture |
| Radiocarbon dated | no |
| Earliest date: Lab Number | |
| Earliest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Earliest date: Calibration | None |
| Earliest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Earliest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Earliest date: Standard deviation | None |
| Earliest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Earliest date: Dated by | |
| Latest date: Lab Number | |
| Latest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Latest date: Calibration | None |
| Latest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Latest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Latest date: Standard deviation | None |
| Latest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Latest date: Dated by | |
| Period Reference |
Alram-Stern, Eva, Die Ägäische Frühzeit, 2. Serie,Forschungsbericht 1977-2009. Das neolithische und vorpalastzeitliche Kreta, None, None |
| Comment | The missing of cheese pots indicates that this area dates in the early Final Neolithic. |
| Settlement type | None |
| Settlement structure |
houses: free-standing |
| Settlement building type | |
| Settlement building shape |
rectangular |
| Settlement building technique | |
| Settlement archaeological features |
hearth pit stone platform |
| Cave/rockshelters type | None |
| Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of graves/human remains | |
| Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of occupation | |
| Quarry exploitation type | None |
| Quarry raw material | |
| Cemetery/graves topography | |
| Cemetery/graves mortuary features | |
| Grave: number of graves | |
| Grave type | |
| Grave: type of human remains | |
| Grave: estimated number of individuals | |
| Grave: age groups | |
| Grave: sexes | |
| Grave: number of female sex | None |
| Grave: number of male sex | None |
| Grave: number of not specified sex | None |
| Grave: disturbance of graves | |
| Description | Three rectangular free-standing buildings were found (during the excavations in 2003/4 by D. Haggis) beneath some archaic buildings. The three buildings are only separated by narrow passages and therefore create a densely built-up area with open areas suitable for joint use. In building 1 two rectangular platforms are preserved. Upon them one anthropomorphic terracotta figurine with a bird-face and incised-pointillé decoration on its neck was found. On its body there are diagonal incisions that indicate a coat. Beside the platforms there was a pit-hearth with a cooking pot on it. In the pot there was a disassembled young pig (age 12-24 months). Building 2 consisted of shell masonry, was narrow and had two rooms. On its floor there were flint-tools which indicate flint-tool-production in this place. Because of its form building 2 was probably a storage-building. Only walls were found of building 3. On the road between building 2 and 3, scraps of stone-tool production were found. A slate can be connected to this task. |
| Comment |
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