West House at Vasiliki
Creators: David Letourneau, Diane Chau, Hunter Carline, Courtney Pham
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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/593460161
35.081929, 25.81099
- Imagery location for West House (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
- West House (English, modern)
- West House at Vasiliki connection Vasiliki (unspecified date range)
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settlement, architectural complex, hill
- See Further:
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- McEnroe, J. 2010. Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing identity in the Aegean Bronze Age. Austin: University of Texas Press, 23.
- Rutter, J. 2015. "The Early Minoan Period: The Settlements." Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology.
- Wilson Myers, J., Emlen Myers, E., and Cadogan, G. 1992. The aerial atlas of ancient Crete. Berkeley: University of California Press, 276-281.
- See Also:
Pleiades
The West House is one component of an architectural complex previously known as the “House on the Hilltop” built at Vasiliki in EMIIB. The other component is the Red House, which served as a residential area. The West House was built as an annex to the Red House, with poorer construction. The West House is believed to have been an area for storage as well as weaving, which is indicated by the presence of loom weights. These buildings are examples of early complex architecture on Crete, showing the development of planning and architectural sophistication at a stage before the appearance of Minoan palaces. The techniques used at Vasiliki were particular to this Minoan settlement alone. The thick walls of the West House were made of mud with wooden beams laid horizontally and transversely to strengthen the walls. The building was destroyed by fire around the end of the EMIIB period.
David Letourneau, Diane Chau, Hunter Carline, Courtney Pham, Jeffrey Becker, and Adam Rabinowitz, 'West House at Vasiliki: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2015 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/593460161> [accessed: 06 July 2020]
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