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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Framing God’s House: The timber-framing practices of the Carolina Lowcountry’s Anglican Parish Churches and Chapels of Ease
(2020-02-27)
Houses of worship formed the backbone of colonial society in the New World. They functioned both as sites of religious devotion as well as spaces of social interactions–merging the sacred and secular. The Lowcountry of ...
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 ...