Elite Minoan Architecture

Its Development at Knossos, Phaistos, and Malia

by Joseph W. Shaw

Book cover: Elite Minoan Architecture

Extent: 224 pages

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Subjects: Architecture, European Prehistory, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Prehistory Monographs

Series volume number: 49

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2015)

ISBN: 9781931534772

Price: $95.00

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PDF (Published)

(December 2015)

ISBN: 9781623033903

Price: $76.00

This book’s aim is to trace the development of elite Minoan architectural forms that arose during the late Protopalatial (Middle Minoan II) and early Neopalatial periods (Middle Minoan III). The study concentrates on the older, larger sites of Knossos, Malia and Phaistos where those forms seem to have originated.


The goal of this book is to trace the development of elite Minoan architectural forms that arose during the late Protopalatial (Middle Minoan II) and early Neopalatial periods (Middle Minoan III). The study of this architectual development concentrates on the older, larger sites of Knossos, Malia, and Phaistos where those very forms seem to have originated. Other Minoan towns and palaces in Crete are referenced when appropriate.

  • By (author) Joseph W. Shaw