Minoan civilization
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This one is filling my box in various forms … here’s a UWashington press release via PhysOrg: DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete. The findings suggest they arose from an ancestral Neolithic population that had arrived in…
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The incipit of a piece from LiveScience … I don’t think this was part of the AIA/APA thing: The civilization made famous by the myth of the Minotaur was as warlike as their bull-headed mascot, new research suggests. The ancient people of Crete, also known as Minoan, were once thought to be a bunch of…
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Folks might be aware that one of Archaeology Magazine’s ‘Interactive Digs’ is a Minoan site at Zominthos … they’ve been digging there for seven or eight years and have just started putting up the ‘field notes’ for this year’s installment. Most of the brief notes so far have a (raw) video clip accompanying them: Field…
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While looking for something else, I chanced upon this column in the Seismological Society of America newsletter (July/August 2012) … here’s the first paragraph as a bit of a tease: Since its discovery in the beginning of the twentieth century by British archaeologist Arthur Evans, the Bronze Age (Minoan) civilization of Crete (Greece, ca. 3000–1200…
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A team of archaeologists have discovered a fortification system at the Minoan town of Gournia, a discovery which rebukes the popular myth that the Minoans were a peaceful society with no need for defensive structures. The team’s efforts were led by Professor Vance Watrous and Matt Buell of the University at Buffalo. Located on the…
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