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CHAPTER X.
THE SUCCESSIVE »SETTLEMENTS AT PHYLAKOPI IN THEIR
AEGEO-CRETAN RELATIONS.
§ 1.—Introductory.
Since the excavations of the British School at Phylakopi in Melos were
brought to a provisional conclusion in 1S99 considerable progress has been
made in archaeological discovery relative to the Prehistoric Age not only in
the Cyclades but further afield in Orete.
Thus for the Cjrclades the imporfcant recent explorations carried on by
Mr. Tsountas in Amorgos, Parös, Siphnos, and Syros have considerably enlarged
our knowledge of the early Cycladic Civilization, which is represented in
Melos in the earliest strata at Phylakopi.1
In Crete again the remarkable results of the excavations at Cnossos
(1000-1903) have to be mentioned. Further wo have to notice the
important work of the Italian Mission at Phaestos (1900-1003) and at Hagia
Triada (1002-3), while the British School has also itself taken its füll share
in archaeological discovery in Crete, as at Cnossos and Dicte (1000), Zakro
(1901) and Palaikastro (1902-3).2 Finally we must not forget the interesting
results of the excavations of the American Mission at the Minoan site of
Gournia (1001, 1003).
At Cnossos in particular the ränge of discovery covered a very wide field,
extending from a remote prehistoric era, as yet unrepresented in the
results of any discoveries in the Aegean, through a period which has to be
correlated with the earliest yet known of in the Cyclades (that represented in
the cist-cemeteries), to a time when apjmrently, equally in Crete and in the
Cyclades, the Aegean civilization had reached its prime. Finally at Cnossos,
at Phaestos and at Hagia Triada wo have equally with Phylakopi the com-
pletion of the story in evidence ofadecadence to which no later renewal of
life was ever destined to succeed.
Meanwhile discoveries on the mainland of Greece, in Italy, particularly
Sicily, and in Egypt have been extending the possibilities of comparative
1 'E<f>. 'Apx- 1898, 136-212,Pia. 8-12; 1899, '2B.S.A. vi.-viii., Mon. Ant. dei Lincei,
74-KW, Pls. 7-10. 1902, 9-191, Tav. i.-viii.
THE SUCCESSIVE »SETTLEMENTS AT PHYLAKOPI IN THEIR
AEGEO-CRETAN RELATIONS.
§ 1.—Introductory.
Since the excavations of the British School at Phylakopi in Melos were
brought to a provisional conclusion in 1S99 considerable progress has been
made in archaeological discovery relative to the Prehistoric Age not only in
the Cyclades but further afield in Orete.
Thus for the Cjrclades the imporfcant recent explorations carried on by
Mr. Tsountas in Amorgos, Parös, Siphnos, and Syros have considerably enlarged
our knowledge of the early Cycladic Civilization, which is represented in
Melos in the earliest strata at Phylakopi.1
In Crete again the remarkable results of the excavations at Cnossos
(1000-1903) have to be mentioned. Further wo have to notice the
important work of the Italian Mission at Phaestos (1900-1003) and at Hagia
Triada (1002-3), while the British School has also itself taken its füll share
in archaeological discovery in Crete, as at Cnossos and Dicte (1000), Zakro
(1901) and Palaikastro (1902-3).2 Finally we must not forget the interesting
results of the excavations of the American Mission at the Minoan site of
Gournia (1001, 1003).
At Cnossos in particular the ränge of discovery covered a very wide field,
extending from a remote prehistoric era, as yet unrepresented in the
results of any discoveries in the Aegean, through a period which has to be
correlated with the earliest yet known of in the Cyclades (that represented in
the cist-cemeteries), to a time when apjmrently, equally in Crete and in the
Cyclades, the Aegean civilization had reached its prime. Finally at Cnossos,
at Phaestos and at Hagia Triada wo have equally with Phylakopi the com-
pletion of the story in evidence ofadecadence to which no later renewal of
life was ever destined to succeed.
Meanwhile discoveries on the mainland of Greece, in Italy, particularly
Sicily, and in Egypt have been extending the possibilities of comparative
1 'E<f>. 'Apx- 1898, 136-212,Pia. 8-12; 1899, '2B.S.A. vi.-viii., Mon. Ant. dei Lincei,
74-KW, Pls. 7-10. 1902, 9-191, Tav. i.-viii.