Earthen architecture is a widespread phenomenon, both in the present day and the past. It is one of the most impressive expressions of the human ability to create a unique built environment from modest natural resources. Archaeological research has shown that mud brick manufacturing techniques can inform on community practices in relation to architecture. New geoarchaeological and microarchaeological approaches provide information on the source of raw materials in conjunction with the mode of manufacture and construction. The aim of this study is to investigate Minoan earthen architecture using mud bricks as an integral part of material culture in order to reconstruct the technological process of mud brick manufacture and to provide fresh insights about architectural craft specialisation in Bronze Age Crete. In order to fulfil this goal, more than 10,000 mud bricks are studied both macroscopically, by investigating broad trends in manufacture and construction form, and microscopically, by considering the finer details of raw material procurement and building performance through XRF, XRD and thin section petrography. This research places the geoarchaeological analysis of mud brick architecture within a specific multidisciplinary theoretical framework that combines archaeological data, architectural analysis and ethnoarchaeology. The analyses clarify how raw materials were selected and used within and between buildings. They also shed light on broader temporal changes, such as increasing technological sophistication, the type of labour force, if centrally organised or household based, and its impact on architecture. Earthen building forms and materials are the result of assimilation between the natural and built environment. Therefore the exploitation of specific raw materials sheds light on community strategies of adaptation to natural resources and their transformation into material culture. Research results indicate that mud brick manufacture was a standardised activity during the Minoan period with evidence of craft specialisation in raw source material selection, production and construction.

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Thesis (Th. M.)--Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-117).

Thesis (doctoral)--Panepistēmion Athēnōn, 1977. / Title on added t.p.: Les monastères de Myriokéfala et de Roustica (Crète) et leurs chapelles. Summary in French. Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-194).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-117).

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Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Η παρούσα διπλωματική διατριβή με τίτλο << Συνθήκες ιζηματογένεσης και παλαιογεωγραφική εξέλιξη των ιζημάτων της τομής «Φανερωμένη» σε σχέση με άλλες τομές της περιοχής στη λεκάνη της Σητείας στην Κρήτη >>, εκπονήθηκε στα πλαίσια του Προπτυχιακού Προγράμματος Σπουδών του τμήματος Γεωλογίας της σχολής Θετικών Επιστημών του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών. Στόχος της εργασίας αυτής ήταν η ιζηματολογική και γεωχημική ανάλυση της τομής «Φανερωμένη» της νήσου Κρήτης με σκοπό να μελετηθούν όσο το δυνατό καλύτερα τα αποθετικά τους περιβάλλοντα, οι συνθήκες σχηματισμού τους, η γεωδυναμική εξέλιξη της περιοχής καθώς και ο εντοπισμός και η αξιολόγηση πιθανών μητρικών πετρωμάτων υδρογονανθράκων. / This thesis is entitled "Treaties sedimentary and palaeogeographic evolution of the sediment section "Phaneromene" compared with other sections of the basin area of Sitia in Crete >> , produced as part of the curriculum of the Geology Department of the Faculty of Sciences University of Patras. The aim of this work was the sedimentological and geochemical analysis of the intersection " Phaneromene " the island of Crete in order to study the best possible way the depositional environments , the conditions of their formation , the geodynamic evolution of the region and the identification and evaluation of potential parent rocks for hydrocarbons .

Cnossos est principalement connue pour ses vestiges minoens et peu de travaux ont été menés sur les périodes postérieures malgré la multiplication des études sur la Crète historique depuis une vingtaine d’années. La période antique est pourtant fondamentale dans son histoire. En effet, entre le Ve siècle av. J.-C. et le milieu du Ier siècle ap. J.-C., c’est l’histoire d’une cité puissante politiquement en Crète puis d’une colonie romaine prospère qui se dessine grâce aux sources archéologiques et textuelles publiées, ainsi qu’à un corpus monétaire inédit. La première partie de la thèse est une étude des monnaies produites à Cnossos pendant toute l’histoire de l’atelier ; elle présente d’abord un catalogue de 2970 monnaies cnossiennes, les contextes de découverte des monnaies cnossiennes dans le monde grec et les monnaies de fouilles de Cnossos, puis une étude de chaque série (typologie, étude de coins, métrologie et datation). La seconde partie est une étude de l’histoire de Cnossos divisée en trois sections correspondant aux périodes classique, hellénistique et impériale. Pour chacune, sont examinés les frontières, l’aménagement du territoire et les événements historiques en prenant en compte la totalité des sources disponibles, numismatiques bien sûr mais aussi les autres vestiges archéologiques et les textes épigraphiques et littéraires. Ces deux parties sont accompagnées d’un volume d’annexes et de planches (volume 2) qui comprend notamment une liste des vestiges mis au jour sur le site entre les premières fouilles de la fin du XIXe siècle à aujourd’hui, le détail des tombes fouillées et les textes épigraphiques découverts à Cnossos et/ou relatifs à la cité. / Knossos is mainly known for its Minoans remains and little work has been undertaken on the later periods in spite of the many studies on historic Crete published in the last twenty years. Antiquity is nevertheless fundamental in its history. Indeed, between the 5th century BC and the middle of the 1st century AD, it is the story of a city politically powerful in Crete and then a prosperous Roman colony which can be seen because of the published archaeological and textual sources, and an unpublished coin corpus. The first part of the thesis is a study of the coins struck at Knossos during the entire operational period of the mint; it shows first a catalogue of 2970 Knossian coins, the archaeological contexts of the Knossian coins in the Greek world and the coins found during excavations of the site. Then, each series is studied (typology, die study, metrology and dating). The second part is a study of Knossos divided into three sections corresponding to the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods. For each, the borders, the spatial organisation and historical events are studied with all available sources: numismatics, archaeological remains and epigraphic and literary texts. These two parts work with an annexe and illustrations volume (volume 2) which is composed mainly of a remains list dug between the end of the 19th century and today, the tombs and the epigraphic texts discovered at/or about the city.