Site Agios Charalambos Cave

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Site ID	181
Name of the site	Agios Charalambos Cave
Alias name	Gerontomouri
Alternative name
District	Lasithi
Region	Crete
Country	Greece
Period	Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Late Neolithic 4500 - 3700 Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Final Neolithic 3700 - 2900 Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Aceramic Neolithic 7000 - 6500 Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic I 6500 - 4900 Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic II 4900 - 4500 Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Middle Neolithic Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Late Neolithic 4500 - 3700 Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Final Neolithic 3700 - 2900
Description	The cave of Hagios Charalambos is located at the western fringe of the Lasithi-Plateau, eastern of the village Hagios Charalambos, which was used to be called Gerontomouri. The cave is small and divided into seven compartments. While rooms 1-4 were excavated under the leadership of C. Davaras in 1976, 1982 and 1983, rooms 3, 4 and 5 as well as the passage between room 4 and 5, and areas outside of the cave, were cleaned and partly cleared in the campaigns of 2002 and 2003. Ceramics, obsidian and gold have been found; it has a time span from the Neolithic till the Middle Bronze Age.
Topography	mountain top
Geographical Coordinate Reference System	WGS84 - World Geodetic System 1984
Latitude	35.177500000000
Longitude	25.440900000000
Elevation	None
Exact location	yes
Coordinate source	Google maps
Number of activity periods	9
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Location of the Site

Bibliography

Reference	no name provided,ARepLon 1984-85, 64.,None,None D. Anglos - J.D. Muhly - S.C. Ferrence, K. Melessanaki - A. Giakoumaki - S. Chlouveraki - P.P. Betan,LIBS Analysis of Metalwork from Ayios Charalambos Cave,2008,Athen no name provided,ADelt 38, 1983 (1989) B´2 375.,None,None P.P. Betancourt,Pseira. A Minoan Settlement on an Islet off the Northeast Coast of Crete,2008,Oxford P.P. Betancourt,Chrysokamino. An Early Minoan Smelting Site on the Northeast Coast of Crete,2008,Oxford Davaras, C.,ADelt 31, 1976 (1984) B´ 379f. Taf. 301,None,None P.P. Betancourt - J.D. Muhly,The Sistra from the Minoan Burial Cave at Hagios Charalambos,2006,Leuven - Paris - Dudley, MA J. Phillips,Aegyptiaca on the Island of Crete in Their Chronological Context: A Critical Review,2008,Wien no name provided,ARepLon 2004-2005, 109.,None,None S.C. Ferrence,Lasithi before the New Palaces: a Study of Selected Elite Artifacts from the Hagios Charalambos Cave,2008, no name provided,ARepLon 2005-2006, 107.,None,None no name provided,BCH 127.2, 2003, 1074f.,None,None S.C. Ferrence,Hippopotamus Ivory in EM -MM Lasithi and ist Implications for Eastern Mediterranean Trade: New Evidence from Hagios Charalambos,2007,Philadelphia no name provided,BCH 114, 1990, 824.,None,None no name provided,ARepLon 1990-91, 70.,None,None no name provided,BCH 109, 1985, 845.,None,None C. Davaras,Πρώιμες μινωικές σφραγίδες και σφραγιστικoί δακτύλιoι απó τo σπηλαιo Γερoντoμoυρί Λασιθίoυ,1986, no name provided,ADelt 37, 1982 (1989) B´2 387f.,None,None no name provided,BCH 108, 1984, 829.,None,None Alram-Stern, Eva,Die Ägäische Frühzeit, 2. Serie,Forschungsbericht 1977-2009. Das neolithische und vorpalastzeitliche Kreta,None,None no name provided,ARepLon 2003-2004, 85f.,None,None P.P. Betancourt,Lasithi and the Malia-Lasithi State,2007,Philadelphia no name provided,ARepLon 2001-2002, 110.,None,None

Areas in this Site

Areas

ID 265 cave or rockshelter	Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Late Neolithic 4500 - 3700
ID 266 cave or rockshelter	Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Final Neolithic 3700 - 2900
ID 267 settlement	Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Aceramic Neolithic 7000 - 6500 Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic I 6500 - 4900 Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic II 4900 - 4500 Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Middle Neolithic Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Late Neolithic 4500 - 3700 Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Final Neolithic 3700 - 2900