Migrant farmers and the Neolithic colonization of Crete

1991/06/01 by Cyprian Broodbank, Thomas F. Strasser · 5 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History #Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies #Mesolithic #Mainland #Archaeology #Colonization #Geography #Ancient history #Sequence (biology) #History

paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00079680

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Abstract

When did a human presence reach Crete, largest of the Aegean islands, and invitingly joined to the mainland by intervening stepping-stones? Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, or only in the Neolithic, when the deep sequence of occupations under the site of the later palace at Knossos began. How many sailed to Crete? What did they bring with them?

Citations

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