Why would the Canaanite ruler of Tel Kabri want to adorn his palace with Aegean art reminiscent of Crete’s Minoan frescoes?”
Maybe the Caananites had their roots in Minoan culture.
:’) The Canaanites are mostly a political tool for beating on modern Israel; this Minoan site was part of a whole different drift of people from Anatolia, the Aegean, and points n and w.