A MINOAN ROUNDEL FROM PYRGOS, SOUTHEASTERN CRETE

A European population in Minoan Bronze Age Crete

The first advanced Bronze Age civilization of Europe was established by the Minoans about 5,000 years before present. Since Sir Arthur Evans exposed the Minoan civic centre of Knossos, archaeologists have speculated on the origin of the founders of the civilization. Evans proposed a North African origin; Cycladic, Balkan, Anatolian and Middle Eastern origins have also been proposed. Here we add...

Abandonment of Minoan palaces on Crete in relation to the earthquake induced changes in groundwater supply

Mysterious abandonment of palaces on Crete during the Late Minoan period was always a challenging problem for archeologists and geologists. Various hypotheses explained this event by effects of tsunamis, earthquakes or climatic changes that were caused by the volcanic eruption of the Santorini volcano. While each of them or their possible combination contributed to the abandonment of palaces an...

Minoan weights

Are children from Crete abandoning a Mediterranean diet?

INTRODUCTION Mediterranean countries such as Greece have experienced rapid social change in the last decade. These community changes affect nutritional habits and there is a tendency for the traditional healthy Mediterranean diet to be abandoned. METHODS The parents of children from one rural Greek village on Crete (Neapolis), and one rural village in Sweden (Kisa) were invited to their prima...

Mortality from malignant neoplasms in Crete, 1992-1993.

This first international report briefly summarises the causes of cancer mortality from the first two years (1992–1993) of the population based Cancer Registry of Crete (CRC), Greece. In the absence of a national or local health information network, a peripatetic approach to data collection was used. All relevant information about cancer patients was abstracted from multiple sources: records and...