Hawes, Charles H.; Hawes, Harriet B.: Crete, the forerunner of Greece (London, 1909)

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

8.C.



Before 3000.

Stone Age.



Cave habitation at Miamu.



Neolithic dwelling; at Magasa.



Neolithic settlement at Knossos be-



ginning: c. 10,000 b.c. (A. J. Evans).

c. 3S15.

Dynasty I, Egypt.

c. 3000-2800.

Transition to metal.

C. 2800-2600.

' 1st Early Minoan period. Opening of



the Bronze Age (Knossos).

C. 2600-2400.

2nd Early Minoan period.



Settlements at Vasiliki and Mokhlos.



Burials at Koumasa, Aghia Triadha,



Aghios Onuphrios, and in the Cy-
clades

c. 2540.

Dynasty VI, Egypt.

c 2500.

Ilnd or Burnt City, HissarliJt.

C. 2400-2200.

3rd Early Minoan period.



Pottery deposits at Gournia (North



Trench), Palaikastro, and elsewhere.

C. 2200-2100,

1st Middle Minoan period.



Knossos Earlier Palace built.



Phaestos ,, „ ,,

c, 2160.

Dynasty XI, Egypt.

C. 2100-1900.

2nd Middle Minoan period.



First climax of Minoan civilization



at Knossos and Phaestos.



Pottery deposits in Kamares cave,



Zakro pit, and elsewhere.



At end. Earlier Palace of Knossos



destroyed.

c. 2000.

Dynasty XII, Egypt.