Fire and the Holes: an Investigation of Low-Level Meanings in the Minoan Built Environment

Letesson, Quentin

doi:10.1007/s10816-014-9206-y

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“…While various interpretations exist for such kernoi (Letesson 2014), they were probably intended for the ritual deposition of small substances of some kind. Furthermore, the north wall of the central court at Sissi is flanked by a low bench made of large slabs that also exhibit shallow depressions (Figure 6F).…”

Section: The Function Of the Sissi Court Buildingmentioning

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Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi

Driessen¹

2021

Antiquity

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Section: The Function Of the Sissi Court Buildingmentioning

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Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi

Driessen¹

2021

Antiquity

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“…Architecture is unique among material artifacts in that people occupy and move through it. Built forms and social practices are thus mutually constitutive, and objects and people must be considered conjointly to interpret the meaning of the built environment (Letesson 2015), and how architecture can structure human interactions and movements (Knappett 2011:54). Rapoport distinguished “designer” meanings of built space as it was conceived from “user” reactions, rooted in more associational terms (Rapoport 1982:15–19).…”

Section: Access and Passage In Tiwanaku Templesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These metrics allow us to quantify many of the attributes of these spaces and to test the hypothesis that plaza spaces functioned as important areas of decision making, where paths would both converge and diverge. Stated another way, we are arguing that plaza spaces acted as the “poles of convergence” of the temple, open spaces that are closely connected to all other rooms of the building and provide materialization of spatial solidarity (Letesson 2015:719).…”

Section: Spatial Syntax and Plazas As Poles Of Convergencementioning

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Plazas and Processional Paths in Tiwanaku Temples: Divergence, Convergence, and Encounter at Omo M10, Moquegua, Peru

Goldstein

Sitek

2018

Latin Am. antiq.

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Reconstructing access patterns, in particular processional and liturgical movement in ceremonial architecture, can illuminate social processes within expansive states. Extensive excavations from 2010–2012 in the uniquely preserved Tiwanaku temple at the Omo M10 site in Moquegua, Peru (ca. AD 500–1100), shed new light on connectedness and access patterns of the temple. Extensive areal excavations confirm past interpretations of a central axial series of doorways and staircases presided over by stelae and U-shaped, altar-like structures leading from public plazas to the sunken court and a central shrine. However, new findings revealed separate lateral pathways through the structure, which suggest liturgical processions to walled patio groups that were isolated from the central axis. We posit that these small patios and their roofed chambers may have functioned as chapels for distinct groups or pluralistic cultic activities that were separate from those of the central axis. Implications for Tiwanaku social structure are studied in light of other examples of triple entryways in Tiwanaku monumental architecture, and Kolata's suggestion of “Taypi” as a structural amalgam of a center and complementary halves, with implications of mediation and bilateral complementarity between ethnicities, genders, moieties, or other pluralistic entities within Tiwanaku state and society.

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“…El análisis de estos complejos ha sido abordado por Letesson (2009Letesson ( , 2013Letesson ( , 2014aLetesson ( , 2014b en varios trabajos recientes en los que se reinterpreta la configuración espacial de varios palacios durante la fase Neopalacial cretense (1600-1425 a. C.). Los datos ofrecidos a partir del empleo de diversas técnicas de representación gráfica, como los gráficos de accesibilidad o los gráficos e interacción visual (VGA) ( fig.…”

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“…Desde este punto de vista el palacio no era tanto un núcleo de proyección social de las elites minoicas como la materialización de una nueva forma de articular la comunidad. Un reciente trabajo de este mismo autor (Letesson 2014b) sirve para remarcar el papel que los hogares y kernoi, situados en dichas áreas de interacción, tenían dentro de estas diná-micas configuracionales neopalaciales.…”

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Aplicaciones de sintaxis espacial en Arqueología: una revisión de algunas tendencias actuales

Tirado¹

2015

Arqueol. Arquitect.

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ResumenEste trabajo realiza un recorrido por algunas de las principales tendencias teóricas y metodológicas sobre la aplicación de técnicas de análisis sintáctico-espacial para el estudio de edificios y asentamientos arqueológicos. Hemos divido nuestra exposición en una serie de claves temáticas que sirven para agrupar los trabajos y autores comentados. Nuestro análisis nos permite obtener, por primera vez, una síntesis comprensiva sobre la orientación actual de este tipo de aplicaciones en el ámbito de la Arqueología actual. Para concluir nuestro trabajo planteamos una serie de propuestas de futuro que creemos que contribuirán a asentar este tipo de aplicaciones arqueológicas como un elemento destacado en los debates en torno a la ciudad como uno de los problemas fundamentales del ser humano en el siglo XXI.Palabras clave: Arqueología de la arquitectura; Space Syntax; Urbanismo antiguo; Ciudades arqueológicas; Configuración arquitectónica. AbstRActThis paper reviews some current trends on the application of Space Syntax methodologies for the analysis of Archaeological built environments. It has been divided into different thematic points to approach the explanation of related publications and authors in a more comprehensible way. The study of all these works allows establishing the first synthesis on this issue in the current archaeological bibliography. Finally, I propose a serie of application trends that must be faced in the general framework of current debates on the City as one of the main problems in the XXI century.

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Fire and the Holes: an Investigation of Low-Level Meanings in the Minoan Built Environment

Cited by 21 publications

References 67 publications

Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi

Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi

Plazas and Processional Paths in Tiwanaku Temples: Divergence, Convergence, and Encounter at Omo M10, Moquegua, Peru

Aplicaciones de sintaxis espacial en Arqueología: una revisión de algunas tendencias actuales

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