Minoan Architecture and Urbanism
New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment
Edited by Quentin Letesson and Carl Knappett
Author Information
Edited by Quentin Letesson, Marie Sklodowska-Curie International Outgoing Fellow, University of Toronto & Université catholique de Louvain, and Carl Knappett, Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory , Professor, Department of Art, University of Toronto
Quentin Letesson is Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Art, University of Toronto and the Département d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie, Université catholique de Louvain. His work focuses on configurational analyses of the Minoan built environment, on the urbanisation of Crete, and on the emergence of technical innovations in the production of Minoan material culture. He teaches archaeological theory and ethnoarchaeology at the Université catholique de Louvain. He is involved in several excavations on Crete, most notably at Palaikastro and Sissi.
Carl Knappett teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory. He is an archaeologist interested in how things generate meaning through their creation and use. While the things of the Aegean Bronze Age are his main focus, particularly the pottery of Minoan Crete, he attempts to integrate insights from the study of things in ethnographic, ethnoarchaeological and sociological contexts with a view to developing a broad-based approach to materiality in society. His publications include Thinking Through Material Culture (Penn Press), An Archaeology of Interaction, and Network Analysis in Archaeology (both with Oxford University Press). He conducts fieldwork at various Bronze Age sites across the Aegean, and directs the new excavations at the Minoan town of Palaikastro in east Crete.
Contributors:
Andrew Bevan is a Professor of Spatial and Comparative Archaeology at University College London
D. Matthew Buell is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Concordia University
Tim Cunningham is a scientific collaborator with the Université catholique de Louvain
Maud Devolder is Post-doctoral Researcher of the Gerda Henkel Foundation at UCLouvain
Jan Driessen is Professor of Greek Archaeology at the Université catholique de Louvain
Rodney D. Fitzsimons is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University
Evi Gorogianni is Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Akron
Louise Hitchcock is Associate Professor of Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology in the Classics and Archaeology Program at the University of Melbourne
Carl Knappett is the Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto
Quentin Letesson is Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Art, University of Toronto
Aren Maeir is Professor of Archaeology in the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan
John C. McEnroe is the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Arts at Hamilton College
Eleftheria Paliou is a W2 Professor in Computational Archaeology at the University of Cologne
Clairy Palyvou is Professor Emerita of the Department of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Joseph Winterbotham Shaw, Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto
Michael E. Smith is an archaeologist with two research themes: The Aztecs, Teotihuacan, and other societies in ancient central Mexico
Todd Whitelaw is Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
