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- The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
- The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- Part I Aegean Neolithic Art
- Chapter 1 Artefacts and Contexts
- Chapter 2 Architectural Beginnings
- Chapter 3 Pottery
- Chapter 4 Figurines and Models
- Chapter 5 Other Arts
- Part II The Art of the Aegean Early Bronze Age
- Part III Aegean Art in the Cretan First Palace Period
- Part IV Aegean Art in the Second Palace Period
- Part V Aegean Art in the Cretan Second Palace Period
- Part VI Aegean Art in the Final Palatial Period of Knossos
- Part VII Aegean Art of the Mainland Mycenaean Palatial Period
- Part VIII Aegean Art at the End of the Bronze Age
- Afterword Aegean Art Through Forgers’ Eyes
- References
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Chapter 2 - Architectural Beginnings
from Part I - Aegean Neolithic Art
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022
- The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
- The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- Part I Aegean Neolithic Art
- Chapter 1 Artefacts and Contexts
- Chapter 2 Architectural Beginnings
- Chapter 3 Pottery
- Chapter 4 Figurines and Models
- Chapter 5 Other Arts
- Part II The Art of the Aegean Early Bronze Age
- Part III Aegean Art in the Cretan First Palace Period
- Part IV Aegean Art in the Second Palace Period
- Part V Aegean Art in the Cretan Second Palace Period
- Part VI Aegean Art in the Final Palatial Period of Knossos
- Part VII Aegean Art of the Mainland Mycenaean Palatial Period
- Part VIII Aegean Art at the End of the Bronze Age
- Afterword Aegean Art Through Forgers’ Eyes
- References
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
The first structures of the aegean world follow techniques known over a huge geographical area; the simplest houses are oblong huts or four-sided houses with floors of beaten earth (Treuil 1983). Reconstructions of houses of this type have been proposed on the basis of remains founds at Achilleion in Thessaly, Nea Nikomedeia in Macedonia, and Nea Makri in Attica (AE1, fig. 1). They are made of posts connected by a horizontal wattle of branches covered in daub, and with a clay plaster which could take a coloured wash; they sometimes have one or two rows of posts at the interior (Perlès 2001, 173–99). The wattle and daub technique is almost exclusively found in the north (Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly) and slowly fades away through the course of the Neolithic.
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- The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze AgeA History, pp. 15 - 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022