A hypothesis on earthquakes and political power in Minoan Crete

The seismic destruction of the first Minoan palace at Phaistos is preliminarily confirmed. The hypothesis is then proposed that a change in the relationships a~nongth e powers in the Messarh plain was also produced by the different capacity of the Phaistos centre to react to the 1700 B.C. seismic ef...

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Main Author: V. La Rosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) 1995-06-01
Series:Annals of Geophysics
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Online Access:http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/4090