Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus - (Volume 17) - Kevin D. Fisher

Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus - (Volume 17) - Kevin D. Fisher

Court-Centred Buildings at Kalavasos, Maroni, and Alassa

Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus - (Volume 17) - Kevin D. Fisher

Kevin D. Fisher [+-]
University of British Columbia
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Kevin D. Fisher is Associate Professor of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology in the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has been involved in archaeological fieldwork in Cyprus, Greece, Jordan, Peru, Guatemala, Canada, and the US and is currently Co-director of the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments (KAMBE) Project in Cyprus. He is co-editor of Making Ancient Cities: Space and Place in Early Urban Societies (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

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In Chapter 7, I analyze three court-centred buildings from the LC IIC-IIIA: Building X at Kalavasos Ayios Dhimitrios, the Ashlar Building at Maroni-Vournes, and Building II at Alassa-Paliotaverna. Each of these three buildings is assumed to be the centre of administrative and economic power for their respective sites and, probably, their wider regions. Despite some superficial formal similarities and shared functions, they materialized monumentality in quite different ways. In each case, I discuss the broader excavation and architectural history of the site, the building’s specific context, and its extant architecture. This is followed by an in-depth micro-scale analysis of the syntactic and architectural properties of the various spaces that comprise each building and my interpretation of how these properties structured social interaction within the building.

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Fisher, Kevin D. . Court-Centred Buildings at Kalavasos, Maroni, and Alassa. Monumentality, Place-making and Social Interaction on Late Bronze Age Cyprus - (Volume 17). Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 199-249 Mar 2023. ISBN 9781845534042. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=24639. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.24639. Mar 2023

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