The second conference report on the archaeological site of Petras,
Siteia concerns the progress of research conducted about the very
important and extensive cemetery of the Pre- and Proto-palatial periods
in eastern Crete - one of very few excavations started in Crete in the
21st century. An international group of specialists present and discuss
various aspects of the remains of the large, unplundered cemetery and
the adjacent settlements traces and in contextualizing the cemetery they
try to understand it in the historical, economic and political framework
of Pre- and Proto-palatial Crete in general, and Eastern Crete in
particular.