Maria Stathi & Maria Psallida (Ephorate of Antiquities of East Attica)
Swedish Institute at Athens (Μitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station)
The site of Kolikrepi is located west of Spata (Attica), between the cemeteries of chamber tombs at Magouleza and Velanideza. During rescue archaeological works in 2009, conducted by the 2nd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (now Ephorate of Antiquities of East Attica), was found and excavated an extended unlooted cemetery dating from LH IIA up until LH IIIC.
Eleftheria Tsakanika (National Technical University of Athens) & Elena Maragoudaki (PhD experimental archaeology)
Swedish Institute at Athens (Μitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station)
The scope of the project was the construction of an experimental structure using the building techniques characteristic of the Protopalatial period at Malia. This included walls with a rubble stone base and an upper section of plastered sun-dried bricks, reinforced with horizontal timber elements. The roof was designed to be flat, constructed with timber beams and reeds, finished with the typical layers of earth-based.
The lecture will take place at the British School at Athens, as part of the Annual Meeting of Aegeus
Phaistos is mainly known in Aegean archaeology as a place where, at the beginning of the second millennium BC, a palace of Minoan type was constructed on a hill with a commanding view over the Messara plain. The plain, the largest in Crete, is commonly considered to be a fertile agricultural heartland and the emergence of Phaistos as a central place has been traditionally linked to its favorable position for controlling the production of agricultural surplus and the significant population growth that this sustained.
