Perhaps there is no surprise that this island, with its Minoan ancestors from the third millennium BC, was a site for high culture, art, political strength, and what we know must be a very old olive agriculture. In each residence in the archeological site of Lathos, one saw stone grinding devices for the production of olive oil, grapes, and perhaps other processes. Olives would be arranged between two stones, the bottom being stationary and the top having a hole into which a dowel could be placed. The bottom stationary stone would have a cutout lip to pour off the liquid, be it oil or wine. It was interesting to us that we were sold olive oil two weeks later in Şirince, Turkey that was produced by the same hand grinding methods. Much better than modern processing, we were told. And it was delicious!
We saw ancient trees and ultramodern processing on our trip.
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