Brinna Otto has written:

'Die verzierte Keramik der Sesklo- und Diminikultur Thessaliens' -- subject(s): Antiquities, Neolithic period, Prehistoric Pottery

The "Minoans" were not Greeks, But there civilization was the first to arise in the region that later became Greece.

Troy _____________________________________________________________________________________________ There are several excavations in the mainland of Greece and the islands that prove the presence of Greeks in the time continuity from Sesklo, Dispilio, Knossos 7500 BCE [Neolithic] and later the Cycladic and Minoan civilizations. The discovery of Troy at 1871-73 and that of Mycenae at 1879 proved the two great epic poems of Όμηρος [Homer] Iliad and Odyssey were not a fiction but a real story reporting the heroic acts of the ancient Greeks ancestors’.