The Minoans: A beginner's guide
Sidelights
Minoan Crete: Sport
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/
olympics/prehistory/minoan.html
Brief account of the evidence for Minoan sports, including boxing, wrestling,
acrobatics and the famous bull-leaping.
History of Sex: Minoans of Crete
www.bigeye.com/sexeducation/minoans.html
Short (and badly designed) article on what little is known about relations
between the sexes in Minoan Crete, primarily the ascendancy of goddesses through
most of its history.
Consciousness-related Issues in Minoan Archaeology: Social functions
gleaned from a cross-cultural perspective
www.cwis.org/fwj/41/minoan.html
Highly academic but still quite interesting article from Joan Stanley-Bakerstrong,
who 'review[s] some of the archaeological evidence found in "Minoan" Crete,
not from an Aegean archaeologist's perspective, but from that of a student
of East Asian art history and, in a cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary context,
attempt[s] to identify examples of concrete manifestations of what may
be gender-related aspects of human consciousness'.
Minoan Crete: African-influenced forerunner of European civilizations
www.cwo.com/~lucumi/crete.html
Article by Runoko Rashidi that delineates the evidence for a north African
origin for the Minoan Cretans.
The History of Plumbing – Crete
www.theplumber.com/crete.html
Details of Minoan sanitary systems, which, it seems, were remarkably similar
to modern-day ones.
