An Early Minoan settlement in southern Crete, occupied c 2600-2200 BC. It was a village of irregularly grouped buildings on a sloping hillside. There is evidence of relatively complex economic organization, attested by seals and sealings and by evidence of craft specialization. The economy may have been based in part on cultivation of the olive. A Neopalatial country house, built c 1550 BC, was destroyed by fire c 1450 BC.