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edith h. hall-excavations in eastern crete.
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no house-walls were found, we may suppose that a structure
of some perishable material, perhaps a wattled mud hut, served
as an extension to the narrow space available within the cave
itself. No neolithic deposit was found in the cave or immedi-
ately outside it but this was to be expected inasmuch as it had
been used as a burial place by the people of the Early Minoan
period who would have probably cleared it out to make room
for their dead.
The objects found in this deposit were chiefly sherds of
coarse clay shading from brown to black and containing particles
of white sand. Their outer surface was generally of a brownish
Fig. 21.—New Types of Early Minoan II Mottled Ware. Scale 1:4.
red color and rudely finished. Mr. Duncan Mackenzie, who
kindly examined these sherds for me, pronounced them to
be a late neolithic fabric dating from the very end of the
stone-age. Among these fragments was a wish bone handle like
that found in the megalithic house at Magasa.1
There also occurred a worked bone like those from Magasa.2
These analogies are striking, but the pottery seems to show that
1 See R. M. Dawkins, he. cit., Fig. 3, c, and PI. VIII, 27-29.
'Ibid., PI. VIII, 11-18.
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no house-walls were found, we may suppose that a structure
of some perishable material, perhaps a wattled mud hut, served
as an extension to the narrow space available within the cave
itself. No neolithic deposit was found in the cave or immedi-
ately outside it but this was to be expected inasmuch as it had
been used as a burial place by the people of the Early Minoan
period who would have probably cleared it out to make room
for their dead.
The objects found in this deposit were chiefly sherds of
coarse clay shading from brown to black and containing particles
of white sand. Their outer surface was generally of a brownish
Fig. 21.—New Types of Early Minoan II Mottled Ware. Scale 1:4.
red color and rudely finished. Mr. Duncan Mackenzie, who
kindly examined these sherds for me, pronounced them to
be a late neolithic fabric dating from the very end of the
stone-age. Among these fragments was a wish bone handle like
that found in the megalithic house at Magasa.1
There also occurred a worked bone like those from Magasa.2
These analogies are striking, but the pottery seems to show that
1 See R. M. Dawkins, he. cit., Fig. 3, c, and PI. VIII, 27-29.
'Ibid., PI. VIII, 11-18.