Talk:Akrotiri (prehistoric city)

Between Cyprus and Crete?
From the article: "Akrotiri’s strategic hi position between Cyprus and Minoan Crete [...]". Geographically, Santorini is not at all between Cyprus and Crete. From Crete, Santorini is due north, and Cyprus is due east. Anybody know what is meant by this phrase? --Amble (talk) 20:50, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * In bronze age the direct line was not achievable, because it was much longer than a day's distance. So to get from Cyprus to Crete, you needed several stops and Santorini was the most important one. --h-stt !?  16:50, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I suspected something like that, but as it stands it's not clear. It would be preferable to have a source that explains this, but I'll try a clarification. --Amble (talk) 18:52, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

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Prehistoric?
The article title is Akrotiri (prehistoric city). I don't think this time period qualifies as "prehistoric". Recorded history goes back about 6000 years or so. Akrotiri was destroyed about 3600 years ago by the Theran eruption. "Ancient city" would be a better description. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.76.24.26 (talk) 16:20, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Cyprus, again
Cf. the comment by Amble above, not only is Santorini very far from the direct route between Crete and Cyprus, but the reference cited mentions neither copper nor Cyprus. The paper describes an idealised network model of the Aegean, based solely on the distance between sites, but taking no account of factors such as prevailing winds, the size of settlements (their model allows for this, but they treat all as equal size in the paper) or even the relative speed of land vs sea travel. It does emphasise that Akrotiri emerges as a crucial node in the network, but they describe their work as "exploratory" rather than "predictive". PaddyLeahy (talk) 19:45, 13 June 2020 (UTC)