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tions seem most likely in those areas. Finally, the conspicuous absence
of pottery in rooms 1 and 2 argues also for their use as animal
or fodder storage or as external living areas. 78
Fig. 13: Katalymata, reconstruction of buildings C and D; route
from the entry path to terraces C and B, view from southwest.
The pottery from Katalymata is typical Late Minoan IIIC and there
is a number of very characteristic common vessels from Katalymata
and Chalasmenos, such as pithoi. Coming back to the question of
the “dual-settlement pattern”, Chalasmenos and Katalymata occupy
distinctly different types of terrain within the same physical environment.
Chalasmenos, is easily accessible from the Monastiraki
plain with plentiful arable land and water. Conversely, Katalymata
communicates easily with neither the plain nor the mountainous
hinterland; it is isolated and nearly inaccessible. Katalymata conforms
itself to a topography which is not conducive to flock or
field maintenance, water acquisition or even healthy population
development.
78 HAGGIS – NOWICKI (1993) 327.