Kavousi Vronda is an archaeological site in eastern Crete, Greece, located about 1.25 km south of the modern village of Kavousi, a historic village in the municipality of Ierapetra in the prefecture of Lasithi.
View of Kavousi Vronda from the south (2001), with the island of Pseira in the distance.
View of Kavousi Vronda, the northern Isthmus of Ierapetra, and the southern Gulf of Mirabello from the east (Kavousi Kastro) (2012).
View of the Vronda ridge (Xerambela), looking southwest from the archaeological site of (Azoria).
Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes was a pioneering American archaeologist, nurse, relief worker, and professor. She is best known as the discoverer and first director of Gournia, one of the first archaeological excavations to uncover a Minoan settlement and palace on the Aegean island of Crete. She was also the second person to have the honor of the Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship bestowed upon her, and the very first female archeologist to speak at the Archaeological Institute of America.
Harriet Boyd Hawes
Aerial view of the Gournia Excavation Site. https://www.gournia.org/