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The Minoan palatial system may have developed through economic intensification, where an agricultural surplus could support a population of administrators, craftsmen and religious practitioners. The number of sleeping rooms in the palaces indicates that they could have supported a sizable population which was removed from manual labor.
In this study, we address the question of the origin of the Minoans by comparing Minoan mtDNA polymorphisms with those of 135 modern and ancient populations. We study skeletal remains from two Minoan populations, one in central Crete, the other in southern Crete.
30 Οκτ 2024 · Minoan civilization, Bronze Age civilization of Crete that flourished from about 3000 BCE to about 1100 BCE. Its name derives from Minos, either a dynastic title or the name of a particular ruler of Crete who has a place in Greek legend.
14 Μαΐ 2013 · The results of a recent study revealed that the ancient bronzeage Minoan Cretans' DNA resembles that of modern inhabitants of the Lassithi plateau of Crete and of Neolithic and modern European ...
density maps the shared mtDNA lineages between the Minoans and 71 extant population groups. Notice that the Minoans dis-played the least sharing of haplotypes with North Africans.
The ancient Minoan DNA was most similar to populations from western and northern Europe. The population showed particular genetic affinities with Bronze Age populations from Sardinia and Iberia and Neolithic samples from Scandinavia and France.
At its peak (1700-1200 BC), the Minoan population of the island may have reached 250,000 people; the town of Knossos is estimated to have had anywhere between 15,000 to 40,000 inhabitants. The highest members of Minoan society were the aristocracy and noble-born, including the clergy.
