Katalymata
At Katalymata—known in Greek as «Τα Καταλύματα»—the story of settlement is written across millennia, from the difficult slopes above the Ha gorge. The site lies about one kilometre north-east of Monastiraki, built on an inaccessible hillside, which has helped preserve a long human presence in a remote setting. The first reference to the site dates to the early 20th century, associated with Harriet Boyd-Hoivis. Proper excavation began in 1993, carried out by Christoph Nowicki in collaboration with Metaxia Tsipoulou and William Coulson. Their work revealed six distinct periods of habitation, anchored by a central building identified as “building C.” Pottery and other finds place activity at the end of the Neolithic or the Chalcolithic—around 3,500 BC—then again in the Minoan …
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