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Understanding Vernacular Architecture in Late Minoan IIIC Crete
(Archaeology & Art Publications, 2014)
The built environment of Late Minoan IIIC Crete (c. 1200–1050 BCE) offers a striking contrast to the formal and often monumental architecture that characterizes the palaces, villas, and settlements of the preceding Neopalatial ...
Colloquium Overview Statement: What’s New at Gournia? The Gournia Excavation Project 2010–Present.
(Archaeological Institute of America, 2017)
Harriet Boyd Hawes conducted the first systematic excavations at Gournia in 1901 and 1903-1904, revealing a palace, a public plateia, some 64 houses, two extramural cemeteries, and a street-network. Hawes was primarily ...
A Comparative Study of Ancient Greek Houses Using Visibility Graph Analysis
(Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2014)
Ancient Greek domestic architecture has been a topic of interest from the perspectives of both ancient literary texts and modern archaeological fieldwork. Scholarship has advanced from a focus on house forms described by ...
Estimating Storage Capacity of Late Minoan Pithoi Using 3D Computer Modeling: A Case Study from Kavousi Vronda
(Archaeological Institute of America, 2011)
Accurate calculation of the storage capacity of ceramic assemblages offers insights relevant to many types of archaeological analyses, including function and design variability, craft specialization, the establishment of ...
The Use of Space Syntax Analysis for the Study of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Domestic Architecture on Crete
(Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2013)
Following the collapse of the Minoan Palatial system and the abandonment of most coastal settlements on Crete in the late 13th century BC, new self- sufficient villages were established at a number of upland sites in the ...
Stratigraphic Excavations within the Gournia Palace 2011-2014
(Archaeological Institute of America, 2017)
Recent excavations within the Gournia palace have revealed much new evidence for the occupation of the site prior to the construction of the Neopalatial complex and for the formation processes, ritual activities, and ...
Modeling Domestic Architecture at Late Minoan IIIC Vronda, Kavousi, Crete
(K.T. Glowacki, 2010)
Excavations at the archaeological site of Kavousi Vronda in eastern Crete brought to light a small rural settlement dating to the LM IIIC period (12th-early 11th centuries B.C.). At the time of abandonment, the settlement ...