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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 ...
Cooking Vessels, Volumes, and Venues: Evidence from LM IIIC Kavousi Vronda and Karphi
(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. ...
Making Cents: Librarians Cashing in on Financial Literacy
(2020-05-06)
During this workshop, librarians from Texas A&M University will showcase a collaboration with Texas A&M University's Money Education Center. As part of a new campus initiative focused on increasing student financial literacy, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Architectural Context and Aspects of Ritual Behavior at Late Minoan IIIC Kavousi Vronda
(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 ...
A Study of Vernacular Architecture in Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Crete
(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 ...
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 ...