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c.3000 - 2800 BC | The city of Pavlopetri is founded on the south-eastern coastal tip of the Peloponnese, in southern Laconia. Pavlopetri's inhabitants later copy Cretan and mainland styles, making exact ceramic copies of high status Cretan bronze jugs, in effect making cheap copies of expensive exotic goods in much the same way that desirable designer brands are copied today. But the early city is neither a Minoan colony or a Mycenaean settlement - it predates both peoples in the area, making it more likely to be a Pelasgian settlement that is later absorbed by the Mycenaeans and is subject to heavy Minoan influence or control in the second millennium BC. The city flourishes, reaching a peak around 2000 BC, by which time it is certainly a Mycenaean city.

Modern computer graphics show a reconstructed Pavlopetri based on surviving ruins and remnants of the street plan, all of which still exist about three metres under the sea | Pelasgians

I've been streaming this during the afternoon/evening, Ep 6 he visits Pavlopetri.

After seeing the sites of Monemvaisa, Peter continues on to Elafonisos, before venturing to the island of Kythira.
My Greek Odyssey: Season 1 Episode 6 – Monemvasia/Elafonisos/Kythira | trakt | TV-PG | Aired 2019-04-26 | Runtime 60 mins

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