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dresses and turbans on special occasions, and
women had hats of truly modern proportions.
Necklaces and armlets were as popular with men
as with women. The Cup-bearer of Knossos wears
his signet in a thin bracelet at his wrist, and two
broad bands on his upper arm ; the Dove Goddess,
from the late shrine at Knossos, follows the same
practice. Beads of steatite, amethyst, carnelian,
rock crystal, and blue paste or kyanos, and small
pendants in the shape of bulls, lions, ducks, other
animals, flowers, and human beings, have been re-
covered in the sieves through which every ounce
of excavated soil is sifted when suspected of con-
taining such objects- As Mrs. Williams remarks in
conclusion, " So far as can be judged from our pre-
sent knowledge of the subject, although the dress
of Minoan men and women was not graceful, it was
elaborate in detail, and not lacking in character
and style.""
The Neolithic Cretans who had their settlement
at Knossos lived in wattle and daub huts like
those in the tcrramare district of Northern Italy ;
but the Stone Age people of Magasa, although
more backward in other respects, built with stone
when they needed to eke out the shelter of their
cave. The progressive steps are missing, but even
in the Second Early Minoan period men were al-
ready using a variety of materials, and were con-
structing well-finished houses that have resisted
destruction for forty-five hundred years. The
methods they employed were followed by many
generations of Minoans with only slight changes.
On lower walls of rubble were reared upper walls
of large sun-baked bricks, and brick was used also
women had hats of truly modern proportions.
Necklaces and armlets were as popular with men
as with women. The Cup-bearer of Knossos wears
his signet in a thin bracelet at his wrist, and two
broad bands on his upper arm ; the Dove Goddess,
from the late shrine at Knossos, follows the same
practice. Beads of steatite, amethyst, carnelian,
rock crystal, and blue paste or kyanos, and small
pendants in the shape of bulls, lions, ducks, other
animals, flowers, and human beings, have been re-
covered in the sieves through which every ounce
of excavated soil is sifted when suspected of con-
taining such objects- As Mrs. Williams remarks in
conclusion, " So far as can be judged from our pre-
sent knowledge of the subject, although the dress
of Minoan men and women was not graceful, it was
elaborate in detail, and not lacking in character
and style.""
The Neolithic Cretans who had their settlement
at Knossos lived in wattle and daub huts like
those in the tcrramare district of Northern Italy ;
but the Stone Age people of Magasa, although
more backward in other respects, built with stone
when they needed to eke out the shelter of their
cave. The progressive steps are missing, but even
in the Second Early Minoan period men were al-
ready using a variety of materials, and were con-
structing well-finished houses that have resisted
destruction for forty-five hundred years. The
methods they employed were followed by many
generations of Minoans with only slight changes.
On lower walls of rubble were reared upper walls
of large sun-baked bricks, and brick was used also