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===Hairstyles in Europe === [[File:NAMA Akrotiri 2.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Boxers with dreadlocks on a fresco from [[Akrotiri (prehistoric city)|Akrotiri]] (modern [[Santorini]], Greece), 1600β1500 BCE.<ref name="Poliakoff 19872">{{cite book |last=Poliakoff |first=Michael B. |title=Combat Sports in the Ancient World: Competition, Violence, and Culture |quote=The boxing boys on a fresco from Thera (now the Greek island of Santorini), also 1500 B.C.E., are less martial with their jewelry and long braids, and it is hard to imagine that they are engaged in a hazardous fight... |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=1987 |page=172 |isbn=9780300063127}}</ref><ref name="Blencowe 20132">{{cite book |last=Blencowe |first=Chris |title=YRIA: The Guiding Shadow |quote=... Archaeologist Christos Doumas, discoverer of Akrotiri, wrote: "Even though the character of the wall-paintings from Thera is Minoan, ... the boxing children with dreadlocks, and ochre-coloured naked fishermen proudly displaying their abundant hauls of blue and yellow fish. |publisher=Sidewalk Editions |year=2013 |page=36 |isbn=9780992676100}}</ref><ref name="Bloomer 2015">{{cite book |title= A Companion to Ancient Education |last= Bloomer |first= W. Martin |year= 2015 |publisher= John Wiley & Sons |isbn= 9781119023890|quote= Figure 2.1b Two Minoan boys with distinctive hairstyles, boxing. Fresco from West House, Thera (Santorini), ca. 1600β1500 BCE (now in the National Museum, Athens). |page=31 }}</ref>]] {{Multiple issues|{{more citations needed|date=June 2024}} {{section rewrite|date=June 2024}}|section=y}} The earliest known possible depictions of dreadlocks in Europe date back as far as 1600β1500 BCE in the [[Minoan Civilization]], centered in [[Crete]] (now part of [[Greece]]).<ref name="Blencowe 20132" /> [[Frescoes]] discovered on the [[Aegean island]] of [[Thera]] (modern [[Santorini]], Greece) portray individuals with long braided hair or long dreadlocks.<ref name="Poliakoff 19872" /><ref name="American Journal of Archaeology">{{cite journal|last1= Jenkins |first1= Ian |title= Archaic Kouroi in Naucratis: The Case for Cypriot Origin |journal= The American Journal of Archaeology |publisher= American Journal of Archaeology |volume=105 |issue=2 |date=2001 |pages=168β175 |doi= 10.2307/507269 |jstor= 507269 |issn=0002-9114 |quote= The hair in both is filleted into a series of fine dreadlocks, tucked behind the ears and falling on each shoulder and down the back. A narrow fillet passes around the forehead and disappears behind the ears. ... Two are in the British Museum (fig. 17) and another in Boston (fig. 18). These three could have been carved by the same hand. Distinctive points of comparison include the dreadlocks; high, prominent chest without division; sloping shoulders; manner of showing the arms by the side...the torso of a kouros, again in Boston (fig. 19), should probably also be assigned to this group. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sherrow |first1=Victoria |title=Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History |year=2023 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=9781440873492 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bETPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA140 |page=140}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Dreads |year=1999 |publisher=Artisan Books |isbn=9781579651503 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWySINhFXP0C&q=dreadlocks}}</ref> Another source describes the hair of the boys in the [[Akrotiri Boxer Fresco]] as long tresses, not dreadlocks. Tresses of hair are defined by [[Collins English Dictionary|Collins Dictionary]] as braided hair, braided plaits, or long loose curls of hair.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tress |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/tress |website=Collins Dictionary |access-date=7 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cartwright |first1=Mark |title=Akrotiri Frescoes |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/article/673/akrotiri-frescoes/ |website=World History Encyclopedia |publisher=World History Foundation |access-date=7 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tress |url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tresses |website=Dictionary.com |access-date=7 November 2023}}</ref>
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