CLA 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Apse, Coastal Erosion, Great Palace Of Constantinople
13 Mar 2016
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Had almost complete unbroken occupaion, 15th century ce. Illustrates the importance of the site, coninually occupied. Not a great palace of crete, irregular size, minoan middle class. What were the exchange networks, industry, agriculture, what did they trade. Today the site is on a small limestone headland projecing into a sheltered bay in the gulf of. Through much of prehistory the coastline was further out past the ip of modern headland. Test trenches in 1912 by edith hall, who was excavaing at the nearby defensible setlement site of. In 1986, barbara hayden of the university of pennsylvania selected a 50 sq. km area to survey, including vrokastro and the area around the bay of mirabello. 2005 and 2006, rescue excavaions under hayden and metaxia tsipopoulou. 2007-2012, excavaions by the irish insitute of hellenic studies at athens. Vines for grapes, olive oils, kiln for crat specializaion. There was an overland route and coast trade routes, through vrokastro.
