Minoans

<p>Thoroughly researched Rodney Castleden's <em>Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete </em>here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete.</p><p>Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s we have defined a series of cultural traits that make the ‘Minoan personality’: elegant graceful and sophisticated these nature lovers lived in harmony with their neighbours while their fleets ruled the seas around Crete. This at least is the popular view of the Minoans. But how far does the later work of archaeologists in Crete support this view? </p><p>Drawing on his experience of being actively involved in research on landscapes processes and prehistory for the last twenty years Castleden writes clearly and accessibly to provide a text essential to the study of this fascinating subject.</p>