Neolithic Settlement of Knossos in Crete: New Evidence for the Early Occupation of Crete and the Aegean Islands

The site of Knossos on the Kephala hill in central Crete is of great archaeological and historical importance for both Greece and Europe. Dating to 7000 B.C., it is the home of one of the earliest farming societies in southeastern Europe, and, in the later Bronze Age periods, it developed into a remarkable center of economic and social organization within the island, enjoying extensive relations with the Aegean, the Greek mainland, the Near East,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931534721
• ISBN13: 9781931534727
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
• Length: 246 Pages