. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . 5^ FLOOR LEVEt, EARLY MlHOi. TfY^^^TTJTp A / /. / / //. / >0^ Fig. 4. Section of West Court at Knossos.]> PalaceSite ofKnossosa Neo-lithic Tell. SectionunderWestCourt. Chrono-logicalSpecula-tions. 34 _ THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. besides some potsherds, .^ere found nineteen stone axes and obsidian pointswith an obtuse base analogous to the class of flint Neolithic borers. Suchworked obsidian flakes were common on the site, and show that ther
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . 5^ FLOOR LEVEt, EARLY MlHOi. TfY^^^TTJTp A / /. / / //. / >0^ Fig. 4. Section of West Court at Knossos.]> PalaceSite ofKnossosa Neo-lithic Tell. SectionunderWestCourt. Chrono-logicalSpecula-tions. 34 _ THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. besides some potsherds, .^ere found nineteen stone axes and obsidian pointswith an obtuse base analogous to the class of flint Neolithic borers. Suchworked obsidian flakes were common on the site, and show that there wasalready a commercial connexion with Melos. The pottery found was ofa fairly advanced Neolithic fabric. , ., v Neolithic debris have occurred beneath the Minoan buildings atKnossos, Phaestos, and other Cretan sites. At Phaestos the Neolithicdeposits beneath the Palace seem to have been considerable ^ though then-depth is as yet not ascertained. But the mass of Neolithic material under-lying the Palace site at Knossos far exceeds in depth and volume thatof any known European locality. The Hill of Kephala is, in fact, a Tellresembling the great mounds of Chaldaea, Palest
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