The guard houses of Minoan Crete are often said to be defensible buildings, based on their location and architecture. However, were they really defensible? To answer the question of how defensible...Show moreThe guard houses of Minoan Crete are often said to be defensible buildings, based on their location and architecture. However, were they really defensible? To answer the question of how defensible these buildings were, three different methods were applied to a sample of guard houses. These methods were Least Cost Path analysis, the calculation of a Defensibility Index value, and Space Syntax with Visibility Graph Analysis. These methods have never been tried before and the results give new insight in how defensible these guard houses actually were. Not only from the outside, but from the inside as well. The results have confirmed that these guard houses are generally defensible buildings, although the defensibility differs per building and per method. In the future, a higher quality DEM and better datasets, that fix most of the flaws in the results presented here, will provide an even more accurate perspective on these guard houses.Show less
In this thesis a social-cultural interpretation is given of Tanagras by looking at their material context in graves and houses from Olynthus, in graves from Tanagra and sites in Macedonia and at...Show moreIn this thesis a social-cultural interpretation is given of Tanagras by looking at their material context in graves and houses from Olynthus, in graves from Tanagra and sites in Macedonia and at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in Corinth. A link thus is made with the social identity of women and the role Tanagras played in substantiating this identity in daily life.Show less
