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I don't think they have too many 15th century B.C. artificats.

This item should be ascribed to Minoan culture not greek right?

I think the Mycenaeans took over Crette AFTER 1500. So you are right - its Minoan. I don't think the Mycenaeans had the bull-leaping ritual either.

The Minoan civilization appeared as the forerunner of the Greek civilization. Minoan culture's fusion with the Helladic (mainland Greek) traditions of the time eventually morphed into the Mycenaean civilization, which in turn challenged the Minoan supremacy in the Aegean. So basically Greek culture is based in Minoan-Mycenaean-Helladic civilization of the Aegean, quite a bit of Minoan culture got passed down to Mycenaean culture and from their to Doric culture, it was not the absolute end of Minoan culture. Later Hellenic civilizations had the same system of government as the Minoan-Mycenaean cultures had. Rhodes which was colonized by Dorians from Argos prior to 1000 B.C. was strongly influenced by the Minoan culture of Crete. The Gortyn Law Code inscription, a complete code of law, is based on Minoan tradition, despite the city's Doric origin and it dates to 450 B.C. Linear A is related to Linear B. Many of the symbols resemble those used in Linear B and have been assigned the same pronunciation. Both of the scripts share many of the same syllables and even after the fall of the Minoan civilization, inscriptions did survive dating from the 7th century BC to the 3rd century BC written in local archaic Greek alphabet and the Ionian Greek alphabet. And don't forget according Plato's Atlantis who recounts the story of various floods told by the Egyptians to Solon: the Greeks, had little memory of previous ages since their ancestors had been almost wiped out by the floods after the destruction of Atlantis, which most theorize nowdays is actually Minoan culture since it adds up with the great eruption of Thera. In esense according to Plato's Egyptian priests they considered the natives of "Atlantis" as ancestors of Platos people.