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Migrant farmers and the Neolithic colonization of Crete

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Cyprian Broodbank  and
Thomas F. Strasser
Cyprian Broodbank
Affiliation:
Girton College, Cambridge CB3 0JG
Thomas F. Strasser
Affiliation:
Program in Classical Archaeology, Indiana University, 408 North Indiana Avenue, Bloomington IN 47405, USA
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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?

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 247 , June 1991 , pp. 233 - 245
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1991

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