ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that the Minoan's scientific observations are based on information from as far back as the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras. Ian Hodder had thought up yet another way to enhance the excavation's reflexivity. He asked Roger Matthews, Shahina, and other excavation team leaders to use the project's computers to keep an online diary of what they were doing as well as what they were thinking and observing as the dig unfolded. In Shahina Farid's diary entry for August 4, she laments, Work in Mellaart's area of excavation started today by clearing the overgrowth that had erupted across the areas of excavation since last season. Some of the seminars dealt with technical or methodological issues, such as recording techniques or ways to prepare cattle bone samples for DNA analysis. Others, which most of the team members found much more stimulating, focused on topical issues such as Neolithic burial practices, the Mother Goddess, or the overall aims of the project.
