Site Katsambas-Poros

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Site ID	427
Name of the site	Katsambas-Poros
Alias name
Alternative name
District	Central Crete (Heraklio)
Region	Crete
Country	Greece
Period	Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Aceramic Neolithic Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic I Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic II Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Middle Neolithic Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Late Neolithic Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Final Neolithic Crete/Tomkins 2007 Initial Neolithic Crete/Tomkins 2007 Early Neolithic Crete/Tomkins 2007 Middle Neolithic Crete/Tomkins 2007 Late Neolithic I Crete/Tomkins 2007 Late Neolithic II Crete/Tomkins 2007 Final Neolithic IA Crete/Tomkins 2007 Final Neolithic II Crete/Tomkins 2007 Final Neolithic IB Crete/Tomkins 2007 Final Neolithic III Crete/Tomkins 2007 Final Neolithic IV Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic I Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic II
Description	Katsambas lies on the western banks of the Kairatos river. In Minoan times there was a harbor for the Knossos-Palace. The area was inhabited since the Neolithic.There are traces of habitation from the Neolithic till the Early Bronze Age.
Topography	hill
Geographical Coordinate Reference System	WGS84 - World Geodetic System 1984
Latitude	35.332222000000
Longitude	25.151667000000
Elevation	None
Exact location	yes
Coordinate source	Google maps
Number of activity periods	None
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Location of the Site

Bibliography

Reference	no name provided,ErgoYPPO 2, 1998, 144f,None,None D.E. Wilson - P.M. Day,EM I Chronology and Social Practice: Pottery from the Early Palace Tests at Knossos,2000, N. Galanidou - K. Manteli,Neolithic Katsambas Revisited: the Evidence from the House,2008,Oxford Wilson, D. S.,Hunting, Sharing, and Multilevel Selection,1998, P. Day,The Early Bronze Age harbour town of Poros-Katsambas: new evidence from material analysis,2004, no name provided,BCH 115, 1991, 941f.,None,None Wilson – Day – Dimopoulou-Rethiotaki, ,The Pottery from Early Minoan IIIB Knossos and its Relations with the Harbour Site of Poros-Katsambas, in: G. Cadogan - E. Hatzaki - A. Vasilakis (Hrsg.), Knossos: Palace, City, State: Proceedings of the Conference in Herakleion organized by the British School at Athens and the 23rd Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Herakleion, in November 2000, for the Centenary of Sir Arthur Evans´s Excavations at Knossos, British School at Athens Studies 12, London 2004, 67-74.,None,None P.M. Day - D. E. Wilson - E. Kiriatzi,Pots, Labels and People: Burying Ethnicity in the Cemetery at Aghia Photia, Siteias,1998,Sheffield Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki, N.,To επίνειo της Kνωσoύ στoν Πóρo-Kατσαμπά, in: G. Cadogan - E. Hatzaki - A. Vasilakis (Hrsg.), Knossos: Palace, City, State: Proceedings of the Conference in Herakleion organized by the British School at Athens and the 23rd Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Herakleion, in November 2000, for the Centenary of Sir Arthur Evans´s Excavations at Knossos, British School at Athens Studies 12, London 2004, 363-380,None,None Galanidou, N.,Presentation at A´ Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στην Κρήτη, 28.-30. 11.2008 in Rethymnon,None,None no name provided,ARepLon 1998-99, 117f.,None,None R. C.P. Doonan - P.M. Day - N. Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki,Lame Excuses for Emerging Complexity in Early Bronze Age Crete: the Metallurgical Finds from Poros Katsambas and their Context,2007,Oxford Day – Wilson – Kiriatzi, ,Pots, Labels and People: Burying Ethnicity in the Cemetery at Aghia Photia, Siteias, in: K. Branigan (Hrsg.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age, Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1, Sheffield 1998, 133-149.,None,None N. Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki - D.E. Wilson - P.M. Day,The Earlier Prepalatial Settlement of Poros-Katsambas: Craft Production and Exchange at the Harbour Town of Knossos,2007,Oxford N. Dimopoulou,Workshops and Craftsmen in the Harbour Town of Knossos at Poros-Katsambas,1997,Liège - Austin Dimopoulou, N.,Workshops and Craftsmen in the Harbour Town of Knossos at Poros- Katsambas, in: R. Laffineur - P.P. Betancourt (Hrsg.), TEXNH. Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 6th International Aegean Conference/6e Rencontre égéenne internationale, Philadelphia, Temple University (18-21 April 1996), Aegaeum 16, Liège - Austin 1997, 433-438.,None,None no name provided,ErgoYPPO 3, 1999, 158,None,None G. Iliopoulos et al.,Identifiying the Geochemical Taphonomy of the Osteological Material from Katsambas Rockshelter,2010, Wilson – Day – Dimopoulou-Rethiotaki, ,The Gateway Port of Poros- Katsambas: Trade and Exchange between North-central Crete and the Cyclades in EB I-II, in: N. Brodie et al. (Hrsg.), Horizon. Όρίζων. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades, Cambridge 2008, 261-270.,None,None Banou, E.,ADelt 51, 1996 (2001) B´2, 632,None,None Alram-Stern, Eva,Die Ägäische Frühzeit, 2. Serie,Forschungsbericht 1977-2009. Das neolithische und vorpalastzeitliche Kreta,None,None ; Dimopoulou-N. Rethemiotaki, ,ADelt 48, 1993, B´ 450–459,None,None

Areas in this Site

Areas

ID 554 cave or rockshelter

Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Aceramic Neolithic
Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic I
Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic II
Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Middle Neolithic
Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Late Neolithic
Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Final Neolithic
Crete/Tomkins 2007 Initial Neolithic
Crete/Tomkins 2007 Early Neolithic
Crete/Tomkins 2007 Middle Neolithic
Crete/Tomkins 2007 Late Neolithic I
Crete/Tomkins 2007 Late Neolithic II
Crete/Tomkins 2007 Final Neolithic IA
Crete/Tomkins 2007 Final Neolithic II
Crete/Tomkins 2007 Final Neolithic IB
Crete/Tomkins 2007 Final Neolithic III
Crete/Tomkins 2007 Final Neolithic IV

ID 555 settlement

Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic I
Crete/Evans, Vagnetti Early Neolithic II