Our story takes us to the lush plains of Anatolia where an abundance of resources enables a hardy people to adapt and prosper. DNA analysis indicates that the arrival of these new people on Crete had coincided with a social and cultural upsurge that had led to the birth of the Minoan civilisation around 7000 BC. After 7000 BC something momentous happened. People suddenly learned advanced practices in agriculture. They developed pot-making, and metalwork. Next, quite suddenly, came an incredible period of palace development. How did such amazing sophistication appear so suddenly?
Further reading:
Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete by Rodney Castleden:
http://books.google.com/books/about/Minoans.html?id=xC1RtVTQGOoC
Leonard Palmer – link between Linear A and the Luvian language:
Professor Constantinos Triantafyllidis:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/anthroscape/topic/4046419/1/
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/science/news/article_1398168.php/Ancient_Minoan_civilisation_built_by_Anatolians_study_finds
Thucydides 1.41 and 1.9.1,3:
http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/thucydides/thucydides-passages.php?pleaseget=1.37-41
