Status Updates From Minoans: Life in Bronze Age...

page 48: "but their behaviour may well have been fairly
unmanageable if they were allowed unmanageable if they were allowed to live in a semi-wild state"

oof we got the sentence repeating sloppy editing fuck up

"...the women are seen as priestesses, temple attendants, dancers, or even goddesses, the earlier assumption [that women went bare-breasted in every day life] is seen to be unwarranted; it may well be that women uncovered their breasts only during acts of religious worship."

But women are shown bare-breasted in frescos depicting everyday life and the sea? What's the argument here?

" Although the vocabulary is Minoan, the syntax is not. The Ring of Nestor is therefore treated as a fake and consequently not referred to in later chapters as evidence of the Minoan belief-system."

More modern analyses has shown that it is most likely legitimate. Man we're at 0 for 2 right now.

"...the beautiful ivory statuette known as the Boston Goddess came from; it seems likely that it was robbed from a surface layer in the ruins of the East Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth, and in terms of materials, shape, and the techniques used in making it, it is characteristically Minoan, and therefore probably genuine. "

Lmao talk about dating yourself real quick here

Page 4: "...the Boston Goddess"

Oh no the intro's not even done yet and we're already referencing fake stuff.