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Neolithic Knossos; the Growth of a Settlement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2014

John D. Evans
John D. Evans
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University of London
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The investigation of settlements as functional units is one of the cornerstones of the approach to prehistory that Grahame Clark has done so much to foster over the years. I hope therefore that the following account of the earliest phases in the development of one which played a role of major importance in the prehistory of Crete, and so of Europe, may be an appropriate contribution to the present collection of essays in his honour.

The beginnings and subsequent expansion of the Neolithic community of Knossos has become fully intelligible for the first time as a result of the two seasons of excavation carried out in 1969 and 1970. The early soundings of Evans and Mackenzie, though they indicated that the Neolithic deposit had covered a large area, threw little or no light on the growth of the settlement, and, apart from the Late Neolithic houses in the Central Court, which were cleared in 1923–4 (Evans, 1928, 1–21), none at all on its nature.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , December 1971 , pp. 95 - 117
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1971

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