Area 580
Main Information
| Area ID | 580 |
| Site |
Knossos |
| Area type | settlement |
| Area NR | |
| Period | Crete/Evans, Vagnetti: Early Neolithic I Crete/Evans, Vagnetti: Early Neolithic II Crete/Tomkins 2007: Early Neolithic |
| Dating method | material culture |
| Radiocarbon dated | None |
| Earliest date: Lab Number | |
| Earliest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Earliest date: Calibration | None |
| Earliest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Earliest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Earliest date: Standard deviation | None |
| Earliest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Earliest date: Dated by | |
| Latest date: Lab Number | |
| Latest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Latest date: Calibration | None |
| Latest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Latest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Latest date: Standard deviation | None |
| Latest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Latest date: Dated by | |
| Period Reference |
P. Tomkins, Neolithic: Strata IX-VIII, VII-VIB, VIA-V, IV, IIIB, IIIA, IIA, and IC Groups, 2007, London Alram-Stern, Eva, Die Ägäische Frühzeit, 2. Serie,Forschungsbericht 1977-2009. Das neolithische und vorpalastzeitliche Kreta, None, None |
| Comment | not sure if according to Evans or Tomkins. |
| Settlement type | tell |
| Settlement structure | |
| Settlement building type | |
| Settlement building shape | |
| Settlement building technique | |
| Settlement archaeological features | |
| Cave/rockshelters type | None |
| Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of graves/human remains | |
| Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of occupation | |
| Quarry exploitation type | None |
| Quarry raw material | |
| Cemetery/graves topography | |
| Cemetery/graves mortuary features | |
| Grave: number of graves | |
| Grave type | |
| Grave: type of human remains |
inhumation |
| Grave: estimated number of individuals | |
| Grave: age groups |
infans I (0-6) infans II (7-12) neonate |
| Grave: sexes | |
| Grave: number of female sex | None |
| Grave: number of male sex | None |
| Grave: number of not specified sex | None |
| Grave: disturbance of graves | |
| Description | In the Early Neolithic, the settlement was on the Kephala hill northern and western of the Aceramic settlement (which lay in the north-eastern part of the Central Court of the Palace). According to Evans, there were between 200 and 400 inhabitants, and according to Whitelaw a substantial expanse of Knossos is verified (0,3 ha Tomkins). In Early Neolithic layers in the area AC, there were burials of fetuses, neonates and infants in a contracted position. Cattle and pigs probably comprised of only one population on Crete. The development of the lithics-industry differs a lot from the one in Franchthi (Greek mainland); Crete didn't play a big part in the exchange of inventions, products and raw materials. There probably was a close connection between status and access to resources in the Early Neolithic. Therefore, the communal consumption of objects that symbolized this access, was a symbolic capital. Getting goods from farther away (from the Gulf of Mirabello or even further) was of a certain significance. |
| Comment |
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