Gournia summary sheet essays

Gournia summary sheet essays First discovered by archaeologist Harriet Boyd Hawes on May 20th 1901 Ruins of the settlement were visible before any excavation took place. Nearby villagers named the location of the ancient city Gournia from the stone basins or gourni visible in the area. Gournia is now one of the most excavated sites on the island of Crete. Located on a small hill, a couple hundred metres away from the sea in the Gulf of Mirabello, close to the north end of the Ierapetra Isthmus Situated near the centre of the town at the top of the hill, making it the dominant central building of the town, surrounded by cobbled streets, blocks of houses and overlooking the nearby ridges. Close to coast, enabling a shorter distance to travel when transporting goods for trade. Gournia was well known as one of Minoan Cretes major porting towns. This palace was not the centre for the production of goods as many other palaces were, however it still stored many of the towns trading goods. It is thought that there must have been an individual or small group of people to organise and supervise the workers responsible for the construction. On the basis of burial customs and the agglutinative structure of the towns such as Gournia there may have been a clan social structure. (1) There was a governing body in these palaces, possibly a king that was not only a ruler, but also a war leader, administration leader and a religious leader. (2) Minoan architects was to create a palace that is aesthetically pleasing from both inside and out Architects did not in fact plan their palaces, that they rather focused on a central room (or central court) and built a number of rooms around it - agglutinative There is no attempt to arrange them systematically, but ...