Minoan Crete

L. Vance Watrous is the Director of Excavations at the Minoan town of Gournia. He has worked on Crete for over forty-five years, on archaeological projects – surface surveys (Lasithi, Mesara, Galatas, Gournia) and excavations (Knossos, Kommos, Chania, Gournia).

1. Crete: the island and traditional life; 2. Crete: land of myth and archaeology; 3. Crete before the Palaces: earliest prehistory – EM II (130,00–2200 BC); 4. The rise and early maturity of Minoan civilization in the period of the First Palaces, 1950-1700 BC (MM IB – I); 5. The maturity of Minoan Crete: the Second Palace period, 1700-1450 BC (MM III–LM IB); 6. Minoan overseas connections during the Second Place period (1700-1450 BC); 7. Minoan religion during the First and Second Palace periods; 8. Minoan art in the First and Second Palace periods; 9. Crete at the time of the Final Palaces and the Post-Palatial period.