Browsing by Subject "Crete"
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(Archaeological Institute of America, 2019)The Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Kavousi Vronda, located in the northern foothills of the Thriphti mountain range in eastern Crete, consisted of about twenty houses clustered in complexes around the slopes and summit of ...
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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 ...
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(2020-05-17)Our understanding of diet and culinary practices at the Late Minoan IIIC settlement sites of Kavousi Vronda and Karphi is based upon several different types of physical evidence that have been recovered through excavation. ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(2020-05-17)Vernacular architecture is closely linked to both time and place and reflects what most people in a community or region consistently build and use, working with local materials, and traditional techniques and forms. It is ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(2009)Preliminary virtual reconstruction of the archaeological site of Kavousi Vronda in eastern Crete, Greece. This video segment tours part of the Late Minoan IIIC settlement, beginning with Building I-O-N on the western slope ...