{"id":5100,"date":"2013-01-16T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2013-01-16T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:09:43","slug":"peaceful-minoan-crete-was-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5100","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful Minoan Crete . . . Was Not"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boy boxers smack each other in a Minoan fresco. (Wiki Commons).<\/p><\/div>\n

Bronze Age (Minoan<\/a>) Crete is often portrayed as this peaceful place<\/a> where people gathered flowers, danced, sang, and worshiped the Great Mother Goddess<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Um, no, says an archaeologist from the University of Sheffield:<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir world was uncovered just over a century ago, and was deemed to be a largely peaceful society,\u201d explained [Barry] Molloy. \u201cIn time, many took this to be a paradigm of a society that was devoid of war, where warriors and violence were shunned and played no significant role.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat utopian view has not survived into modern scholarship, but it remains in the background unchallenged and still crops up in modern texts and popular culture with surprising frequency.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving worked on excavation and other projects in Crete for many years, it triggered my curiosity about how such a complex society, controlling resources and trading with mighty powers like Egypt, could evolve in an egalitarian or cooperative context. Can we really be that positive about human nature? As I looked for evidence for violence, warriors or war, it quickly became obvious that it could be found in a surprisingly wide range of places.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much like other people, in other words. Read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Um, no, says an archaeologist from the University of Sheffield: \u201cTheir world was uncovered just over a century ago, and was deemed to be a largely peaceful society,\u201d explained [Barry] Molloy. \u201cIn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,198,197,16],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-bronze-age","tag-crete","tag-goddess"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1kg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":926,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=926","url_meta":{"origin":5100,"position":0},"title":"The Most Advanced–But Vanished–Pagans.","author":"Chas S. 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