Table Of ContentMINOAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
Minoan Architecture
and Urbanism
New Perspectives on an Ancient
Built Environment
Edited by
QUENTIN LETESSON AND
CARL KNAPPETT
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Acknowledgements
This volume arises from a workshop entitled From Static Data to Dynamic
Processes:NewPerspectivesonMinoanArchitectureandUrbanismheldatthe
University of Toronto, 5–6 January 2015. The organization of the workshop
was made possible by the generous financial support of the Social Sciences
andHumanitiesResearchCouncil(SSHRC—Canada),theFondsNationalde
la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS—Belgium), the ARC ‘A World in Crisis’
(UniversitécatholiquedeLouvain,Belgium),andtheInstitutdesCivilisations,
ArtsetLettres(INCAL/UCL—Belgium).Invaluablehelpwasalsoprovidedby
the Department of Art and the Archaeology Centre (University of Toronto).
We would like to thank all the speakers at this workshop for enthusiastically
acceptingoursuggestiontogathertheircontributionsinaneditedvolumeand
forbeingsoprofessionalinpromptlyconvertingtheiroralpapersintowritten
chapters. We are alsoextremely grateful to Georgie Leighton,Céline Louasli,
Clare Kennedy, and Tom Perridge, at Oxford University Press, who all have
been incredibly helpful and accommodating. This volume forms part of
Quentin Letesson’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie IOF project NetUrbIn funded
by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme ([FP7/2007-2013]
[FP7/2007-2011])undergrantagreementno.PIOF-GA-2012-326640.
Contents
ListofFigures ix
ListofTables xv
ListofContributors xvii
1. Introduction—MinoanBuiltEnvironment:PastStudies,Recent
Perspectives,andFutureChallenges 1
QuentinLetessonandCarlKnappett
PARTI
2. Architecture:BuildingDynamicsattheMicro-Scale 23
QuentinLetessonandCarlKnappett
3. BestLaidPlans:AnArchaeologyofArchitecturalAnomalies
inBronzeAgeCrete 31
TimCunningham
4. ArchitecturalEnergeticsandLateBronzeAgeCretan
Architecture:MeasuringtheScaleofMinoanBuildingProjects 57
MaudDevolder
5. UnderstandingMinoanIn-HouseRelationshipsonLate
BronzeAgeCrete 80
JanDriessen
PARTII
6. Urbanism:BuiltSpaceandCommunitiesattheMeso-Scale 107
QuentinLetessonandCarlKnappett
7. TheDevelopmentandCharacterofUrbanCommunities
inPrehistoricCreteintheirRegionalContext:
APreliminaryStudy 114
ToddWhitelaw
8. MinoanGroupDesign:The‘ViewfromtheBridge’ 181
ClairyPalyvou
9. CommunityBuilding/BuildingCommunityatGournia 204
D.MatthewBuellandJohnC.McEnroe
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10. TheMiddleMinoanSlipwayforShipsattheKommos
Harbour,andHarbourDevelopmentinPrehistoricCrete 228
JosephW.Shaw
PARTIII
11. ProcessesandPatternsattheMacro-Scale:CreteandBeyond 259
QuentinLetessonandCarlKnappett
12. ComputationalApproachestoMinoanSettlementInteraction
andGrowth 266
EleftheriaPaliouandAndrewBevan
13. LostinTranslation:SettlementOrganizationinPostpalatial
Crete—AViewfromtheEast 289
LouiseA.HitchcockandArenM.Maeir
14. DiningontheFringe?APossibleMinoan-StyleBanquetHall
atAyiaIrini,KeaandtheMinoanizationoftheAegeanIslands 334
RodneyD.FitzsimonsandEviGorogianni
15. AComparativePerspectiveonMinoanUrbanism 361
QuentinLetesson,CarlKnappett,andMichaelE.Smith
Index 391
List of Figures
1.1. MapofCretewiththeprincipalsitesmentionedinthevolume. 3
3.1. PlanofPalaikastro,portionsexcavatedduring1902–6,1962–3,
and1986–2003. 34
3.2. South-eastBuildingBlockM. 36
3.3. Drain. 37
3.4. Modifieddrain. 38
3.5. (a)Room8;(b)detailofclaysteps. 40
3.6. Room3. 41
3.7. Jambbases. 41
3.8. Platform. 42
3.9. Insitucolumnremains. 44
3.10. Streetgrid. 46
3.11. GoogleMapsimageofSportoaseLeuven. 48
4.1. Totallabour-timerequirementsforthebuildingsselected. 62
4.2. Workforcenecessaryforconstructingtheinitialphaseofeachbuilding
selected,consideringathree-monthbuildingproject. 64
4.3. Involvementofnon-specialists(grey)andspecialists(black)inthe
threemainarchitecturalphasesofthepalaceatGournia. 67
4.4. Weightof117cutsandstoneblocksinthewestwingoftheNeopalatial
palaceatMalia. 68
4.5. Specialized(black)vsunspecialized(grey)necessaryworkforcefor
theconstructionoftheBuildingofKlimataria-Manares,theVillaof
Achladia,andtheHouseoftheFrescoes. 70
5.1. LateMinoanIIIBBuildingComplexCDatSissi. 83
5.2. LateMinoanIIIBBuildingComplexNuatMalia. 85
5.3. LateMinoanIIIB1Building1atChania. 87
5.4. LateMinoanIIIA2Building4atPalaikastro. 87
5.5. LateMinoanIIICBuildingComplexatVasilikiKefala. 88
5.6. LateMinoanIBArtisans’QuarteratMochlos,HouseB. 95
5.7. LateMinoanIHouseatHagiaVarvara,Malia. 96
7.1. GreekmainlandandCretansurveys:Neolithicsitesize. 117
7.2. Cretansurveys,sitesize:EarlyMinoanI–II(topleft);EarlyMinoan
III–MiddleMinoanIA(topright);MiddleMinoanIB–II(bottomleft);
MiddleMinoanIII–LateMinoanI(bottomright). 118
