Mesara Plain

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Mesara is the name of an illuvial plain in southern Crete, to the east of the ruins of Phaistos. It stretches for about 50 km, with a width of about 7 km. Since 1500 BC the plain has grown up to 6km due to a build up of illuvial sediment.

[edit] Literature

  • Livingstone Vance Watrous, Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA (2006), ISBN 1-931745-14-5.