Akrotiri

Experts investigating frescoes and artworks have made some important discoveries with regard to Minoan civilization. They have found that Minoan artists realistically depicted a species of monkey and baboon, which are not indigenous to the Aegean. This is believed to show that this Bronze Age civilization had significant links with North Africa. Moreover, the depictions of the primates are allowing us to understand how they were used in Minoan art. The research was carried out by Bernardo Urbani, of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research and Dionisios Youlatos, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki Greece. Their study is an example of archaeoprimatology which is ‘a relatively new sub-discipline that involves primatology and archaeology’ reports Antiquity. They carried out a review of the secondary