ARTH 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Messara Plain, Cyclades, Minoan Chronology
19 Oct 2017
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Once there you would farm and would be able to survivor. Did not have to be traders could be settlers: nothern half and southern half, 7000 bc. May well be the original central part of the island. There are a lot of facts within knosso. Lots of habitation placed there long ago. One of the rst: phalstos mesara plain. Low hill in that pass between the north coast and south coast. Natural trade core door between the two coasts. Send it over the land instead of going around the island with risks. Richer than myrtos cause of its location. No stone vessels, very few metal artifacts. Minonens on crete may not have to go out on ships to trade but thats because they are being traded with the cyclades whom are the ones that are traveling the trades over to their lands. Ivory cycladic faf ec ii 2650-2400 bc. Used to sculpt the esh of their gods on statues.
