Hello,
John Croft wrote:
>There is no Cretian evidence on the mainland except for trade goods.
Minos's
Thalassocracy was limited to islands.<
There are quite a lot of sites where a Cretan influence is proven (Tel el
Dab'a/Avaris, Tell Kabri etc., see my postings from 6th and 8th of December
1999), but I believe you are talking about direct 'colonies'. They are
naturally rarer (no people had overseas colonies at that time yet...), but a
very good example is Minoan Miletus (see also my posting from 6th of
December). As the Bronze Age level of the Anatolian coast hasn't been very
much excavated yet we can't say much more.
In archaeology it is very risky to talk about things that haven't been
found! (or worse: that don't exist). Only in well excavated sites (which are
_very_ rare!!) it is possible to say anything like that.
Best wishes
Sabine Ivanovas