The early Iron Age site, first excavated in 1917, was most prosperous in the 8th–6th centuries BCE;  later it became a minor satellite of Knossos and continued to be occupied into the Byzantine period.
The early Iron Age site, first excavated in 1917, was most prosperous during the 8th–6th centuries BCE; later it became a minor satellite of Knossos and continued to be inhabited into the Byzantine period.