Identifier: palacesofcreteth00moss (find matches)
Title: The palaces of Crete and their builders
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mosso, A. (Angelo), 1846-1910
Subjects: Palaces
Publisher: London, Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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pth from the pavement to the virgin soil, the upperlevel on which the palace stands being nearlv horizontal,while the Neolithic stratum beneath rests on the slope ofthe hill. In his description of this palace Dr. Luigi Pernier ^ says thatthis hill had been abandoned at the close of the Neolithic period,and that the Neolithic remains upon the hill have been carrieddown the slope by natural forces. From the evidence of theexcavations which I carried out with him this year, which haveshown the different strata of earth with the charcoal and pot-sherds all well preserved and distinct, it seems to me moreprobable that the top of the hill was levelled when the primi-tive palace was built and the upper court made. I shall not describe here what I found in excavating, as it willform the subject ot another work, but will only say that theinhabitants were in a fairly advanced stage of civilisation and had Scavi della Missione italiana a Phsstos, Monumenti antichi, Accad. Lincei,vol. xiv., 1905.
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piQ. ^..—PIT 5! METRES DEEP FROM THE LEVEL OF THE FLOOR OF THE ROOM MARKED P IN FIG. 3. 2i, stoiit obsidia. .vhich «. of the /i^^ . xicn they arrived here. I was able to confirm the result of Dr. Mackenzie tions as to the black pottery upon the vi:g.a soil being j... -i- little higher appears pottery with decoration of punctured dotsand lines. In a later period the decoration of pottery becomesmore complex ; imitation of basket work is found, and the deeplyincised lines are filled with white chalk. The vases become moreelegant and have decoration in white on a black ground. Thispottery is identical with that found in the Troad and in Sicily.The Neolithic stratum is above 4 metres deep, and according toDr. Evanss calculation man must have dwelt on this hill, usingonly stone weapons for above four thousand years before he wasa:qu.iinted with bronze. When black pottery with white designs had been brought toperfection another kind of coloured pottery began to be made,and fragments of b

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