The palaces of Crete and their builders . pe. In 1853 there was a greatdrought, and the unusual deficiency of water caused the bed ofmany of the Swiss lakes to be dried up and the earliest lakedwellings were made visible. It was seen that man in selt-defencehad built houses upon beams and piles driven into the bottom ofthe lake. In 1861 Gastaldi, and immediately after him Pigorini,began the studies which ultimately proved that the whole sub-Alpine region, from Piedmont to the Euganean Hills, was fromthe Stone Age to the beginning of the Iron Age inhabited by apeople who lived in pile dwellings
The palaces of Crete and their builders . pe. In 1853 there was a greatdrought, and the unusual deficiency of water caused the bed ofmany of the Swiss lakes to be dried up and the earliest lakedwellings were made visible. It was seen that man in selt-defencehad built houses upon beams and piles driven into the bottom ofthe lake. In 1861 Gastaldi, and immediately after him Pigorini,began the studies which ultimately proved that the whole sub-Alpine region, from Piedmont to the Euganean Hills, was fromthe Stone Age to the beginning of the Iron Age inhabited by apeople who lived in pile dwellings. The terramare, which appear hke little mounds in the watersof Upper Italy, are all ahke ; and in some are found three or fourrows of pile dwellings constructed upon thousands of staves andpiles. It was at first believed that the people of the pile dwell-ings came from the north, and after crossing the Alps hadplanted themselves on the lakes and in North Italy, but nowit is admitted that the movement was from the south towardsthe THE PALACE OF KNOSSOS 119 The Etruscan city found at Marzabotto, near Bologna, anddescribed by Brizio,i so closely resembles the palace of Knossos,that their common origin must be recognised. Like the palaceof Knossos, it was traversed by two great roads : one the viadecumana, from east to west ; the other, the via Cardinale fromsouth to north ; there are other lesser cardinal ways whichintersect the decumana at right angles. But before the discovery of this Etruscan city, Chierici andPigorini recognised in the quadrilateral form and the orientationof the terramare the primitive form of the Italic And itmust be admitted that the pile dwellings are less ancient than theprimitive palaces of Crete, for the bronze fibulae which are foundin the pile dwellings are not found in the Minoan and Mycenasanperiods in Crete. In the central court of Knossos Dr. Evans found objectsfrom Egypt of the time of the Xlllth Dynasty—about 2100 Egy
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