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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lato (Crete) - Hillfort in Greece in Crete

Submitted by Klingon on Monday, 18 March 2013  Page Views: 17468

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Lato (Crete) Alternative Name: Λατό
Country: Greece
NOTE: This site is 2.301 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Crete Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Agios Nikolaos  Nearest Village: Kritsa
Latitude: 35.178653N  Longitude: 25.654837E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Lato (Crete)
Lato (Crete) submitted by AlexHunger : Then Temple of Apollo at Lato. (The name itself is derived from Leda, Apollo's mother). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Crete./ Lato was a city founded by the Dorian invaders from the mainland around the 8th Century BCE, after the Minoan era. It was built on a defensible mountain pass just south West of Agios Nikolaos.

Around the 3 Century BCE, when Crete became more peaceful, it was abandoned when everyone moved to Kamara, the Ancient name for Agios Nikolaos. The fenced in area is the large water cistern. Near: Kritsa

Note: War was central to the Minoan civilisation - contrary to popular belief
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Lato (Crete)
Lato (Crete) submitted by AlexHunger : Lato was a city founded by the Dorian invaders from the mainland around the 8th Century BCE, after the Minoan era. It was built on a defensible mountain pass just south West of Agios Nikolaos. Around the 3 Century BCE, when Crete became more peaceful, it was abandoned when everyone moved to Kamara, the Ancient name for Agios Nikolaos. The fenced in area is the large water cistern. Near: Krits... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lato (Crete)
Lato (Crete) submitted by AlexHunger : Lato Main Gate. Very reminiscent of architecture in Mycenia. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lato (Crete)
Lato (Crete) submitted by AlexHunger : Lato Agora with semi-circular area. This was probably a meeting place. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lato (Crete)
Lato (Crete) submitted by TheDaveWalker : View from the top (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lato (Crete)
Lato (Crete) submitted by diegomendez : Lato. Unión entre bloques de muros.

Lato (Crete)
Lato (Crete) submitted by diegomendez : Lato (Crete)

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Re: Lato (Crete) by diegomendez on Saturday, 30 August 2014
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Hi,
Este tipo de construcciones se parecen a la de los micénicos. Los dorios y tracios, ¿tienen influencias constructivas micénicas?
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War was central to the Minoan civilisation - contrary to popular belief by Andy B on Monday, 18 March 2013
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Research from the University of Sheffield has discovered that the ancient civilisation of Crete, known as Minoan, had strong martial traditions, contradicting the commonly held view of Minoans as a peace-loving people.

The research, carried out by Dr Barry Molloy of the University of Sheffield’s Department of Archaeology, investigated the Bronze Age people of Crete, known by many as the Minoans, who created the very first complex urban civilisation in Europe.

“Their world was uncovered just over a century ago, and was deemed to be a largely peaceful society,” explained Molloy. “In 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.

“That 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.

“Having 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.”

Building on recent developments in the study of warfare in prehistoric societies, Molloy’s research reveals that war was in fact a defining characteristic of the Minoan society, and that warrior identity was one of the dominant expressions of male identity.

Molloy continued: “The study shows that the activities of warriors included such diverse things as public displays of bull-leaping, boxing contests, wrestling, hunting, sparring and duelling. Ideologies of war are shown to have permeated religion, art, industry, politics and trade, and the social practices surrounding martial traditions were demonstrably a structural part of how this society evolved and how they saw themselves.”

Even the famous Mycenaeans, heroes of the Greek Trojan War, took up the Minoan way of war – adopting its weaponry, practices and ideologies. “In fact,” said Molloy, “it is to Crete we must look for the origin of those weapons that were to dominate Europe until the Middle Ages, namely swords, metal battle-axes, shields, spears and probably armour also.”

Molloy found a “staggering” amount of violence in the symbolic grammar and material remains from prehistoric Crete. Weapons and warrior culture were materialised variously in sanctuaries, graves, domestic units and hoards. It could also be found in portable media intended for use during social interactions, for example, administration, feasting, or personal adornment. “There were few spheres of interaction in Crete that did not have a martial component, right down to the symbols used in their written scripts.” said Dr Molloy.

Molloy’s research looks at war as a social process – looking at the infrastructural and psychological support mechanisms that facilitated the undertaking of war and the means through which it was embedded in social logic. This approach, argues Molloy, leads to a deeper understanding of war in the Minoan civilisation: “When we consider war as a normative process that had cross-references and correlates in other social practices, we can begin to see warriors and warriorhood permeating the social fabric of Cretan societies at a systematic level.

“The social and institutional components of war impacted on settlement patterns, landscape exploitation, technological and trade networks, religious practices, art, administration and more, so that war was indirectly a constant factor in shaping the daily lives of people in prehistoric Crete…understanding the social aspects of war ‘beyond the battle’ is essential if we are to better under

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Re: Lato (Crete) by Anonymous on Thursday, 07 February 2008
Hi,
the photo allegedly showing the 'agora' in Lato actually shows a rather late addition to the ancient site: A threshing floor (Greek 'aloni') that recent farmers built with stones from the ruins on the spot where the best winds blow for winnowing - in the middle of the saddle the site sits in, right next to the ancient agora (not visible on photo).
Sorry, but sometimes old stones are re-used...

Sabine
archaeologist
Crete
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    Re: Lato (Crete) by Klingon on Sunday, 10 February 2008
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    Thank you for your notice. Sometimes it's really difficult to keep the old and new stones apart.
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