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Architecture, Minoan --- Palaces --- Buildings --- Minoan architecture --- Architecture, Minoan.

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Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. How did they work? What role did the palaces have in their towns, and the towns in their landscapes? It might seem that with such richly documented architectural remains these questions would have been answered long ago. Yet, analysis has mostly found itself confined to building materials and techniques, basic formal descriptions, and functional evaluations. Critical evaluation of these data as constituting a dynamic built environment has thus been slow in coming. This volume aims to provide a first step in this direction. It brings together international scholars whose research focuses on Minoan architecture and urbanism as well as on theory and methods in spatial analyses. By combining methodological contributions with detailed case studies across the different scales of buildings, settlements and regions, the volume proposes a new analytical and interpretive framework for addressing the complex dynamics of the Minoan built environment.

Architecture, Minoan. --- Architecture minoenne --- Minoans --- Architecture, Minoan --- Minoan architecture --- Civilization, Minoan --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans

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Architecture, Minoan --- Architecture, Mycenaean --- Mycenaean architecture --- Minoan architecture

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Minoan --- Architecture, Minoan --- Modular coordination (Architecture) --- Dimensional coordination in building --- Modular design --- Minoan architecture --- Modular coordination --- Architecture, Minoan. --- Modular coordination (Architecture). --- Architecture --- Building --- architecture [discipline] --- architectonics --- Greece --- Standardization

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This book is the tenth volume in the series of excavation reports about the harbor town of Pseira, which is located on the island of the same name, just off the northeast coast of Crete. The book focuses on the excavation and interpretation of the architecture and material culture in Block AF. This southern group of buildings is one of the most important areas in the settlement because of its long succession of building phases. Block AF provides the fullest sequence of building phases from any one area at Pseira, with habitation extending from before MM II to LM III. It has examples of complex architectural details including a "pillar crypt," elaborate upstairs floors, a well-preserved U-shaped staircase, and a well-designed kitchen, all of which contribute significantly to our knowledge of East Cretan building practices. In addition to domestic pottery, the houses furnish examples of stone tools, stone vessels, loom weights, inscriptions in Linear A, cult objects, animal bones, marine shells, and a wide range of material recovered from water sieving. This latter category, with burned grain, fish bones, shells, and other categories of materials, fills many gaps in our knowledge of Pseiran life.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Historic buildings --- Architecture, Minoan --- Minoans --- Pseira (Extinct city) --- Pseira Island (Greece) --- Antiquities.