Archaic to Hellenistic archaeobotanical remains from Little Palace North, Knossos (Crete, Greece)

This archaeobotanical dataset from the Little Palace North (LPN) project at Knossos (Crete, Greece) includes sixteen samples dated to the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. The samples were recovered during the 2001-2002 excavations by flotation. The dataset includes 594 archaeobotanical items: cereal grains and chaff, pulses, fruit and nut remains and wild seeds. Most plant macroremains were charred but a few mineralised/calcified remains were also present, all of them being fruits and possibly nuts. The overall preservation of the assemblage was average while olives exhibited a high degree of fragmentation with only 8 olives found whole and the remaining 236 across the whole assemblage represent the minimum number of individual. The dataset is particularly important as it provides much needed new data on some of the least well represented chronological periods across the Aegean. It is also the first dataset on Classical archaeobotanical remains in Crete.