Koumasa necropolis
Koumasa, a Minoan archaeological site in southern Crete, is best known for its large prepalatial cemetery, set between Loukia and Koumasa near the southern edge of the Mesara Plain and the foothills of the Asterousia Mountains. The ground here was first opened by archaeologist Stephanos Xanthoudides between 1904 and 1906, and then revisited in a second campaign in 1991–1992 by Alexandra Karetsou and Athanasia Kanta. Excavations since 2012—systematic work and digital mapping led at Heidelberg University by Prof. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos—have brought to light architectural remains, domestic areas, and burial layers that connect settlement planning with funerary practice in the Early Bronze Age. …
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