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Chapter 7 - Architecture

from Part II - The Art of the Aegean Early Bronze Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

Jean-Claude Poursat
Translated by
Carl Knappett
Jean-Claude Poursat
Affiliation:
University of Clermont-Ferrand
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

The middle of the third millennium bc sees a new phenomenon – the development of fortified settlements in mainland Greece and the Cyclades. The fortifications at Lerna, barely preserved, are built around 2500 bc; with a rubble foundation and a mudbrick superstructure, they have semi-circular towers protecting access (Figure 7.1) and include rooms covered with tiles or schist slabs. These enclosure walls also exist in central Greece (Wiencke 2000, 649), at Kolonna on Aegina (where they are comparable to those of Troy – AE1, fig. 43) (Aruz 2003, 260–1), and in the Aegean islands, from the northeast Aegean to the Cyclades. At Kastri on Syros the wall blocking access to the site had six horseshoe-shaped towers, which in turn were protected by an outer line of defence (ArchReports 53, 2006–7, 83, fig. 99).

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Alexiou, and Warren, 2004: Alexiou, S., Warren, P., The Early Minoan Tombs of Lebena, Southern Crete, Sävedalen.Google Scholar
Aruz, 2003: Aruz, J. ed., Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New York.Google Scholar
Doumas, 1977: Doumas, C., Early Bronze Age Burial Habits in the Cyclades, Gothenburg.Google Scholar
Hägg, and Konsola, 1986: Hägg, R., Konsola, D. eds., Early Helladic Architecture and Urbanization, Gothenburg.Google Scholar
Papadatos, 2005: Papadatos, Y., Tholos Tomb Gamma: A Prepalatial Tholos Tomb at Phourni, Archanes, Philadelphia, PA.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Panagiotopoulos, 2002: Panagiotopoulos, D., Das Tholosgrab E von Phourni bei Archanes, Oxford.Google Scholar
Soles, 1992: Soles, J., Prepalatial Cemeteries at Mochlos and Gournia and the House Tombs of Bronze Age Crete, Hesperia Supplement 24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vasilakis, and Branigan, 2010: Vasilakis, A., Branigan, K., Moni Odigitria: A Prepalatial Cemetery and Its Environs in the Asterousia, Southern Crete, Philadelphia, PA.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wiencke, 2000: Wiencke, M., Lerna, vol. IV. The Architecture, Stratification and Pottery of Lerna III, Princeton, NJ.Google Scholar

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  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
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  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.008
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  • Architecture
  • Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Translated by Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
  • Book: The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Online publication: 19 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108630672.008
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