Light Overviews
Imagining a Minoan Home | Co-Geeking
The Minoans: Urban Life | The Stream of Time
The Palace of Knossos | Odyssey: Adventures in Archaeology
The Minoan Settlement at Akrotiri and the Eruption of the Theran Volcano (Powerpoint)
Scholarly Works
Driessen, Jan. “A House Model from Malia,” in Studi in onore di Vincenzo La Rosa.
Hitchcock, Louise. “Entangled Threads: Who Owned the West House at Akrotiri (Proofs),” n.d.
Lehmann, Kaylyn. The Houses of Gournia: An Analysis of the Late Minoan IB Period Residences. University of Victoria, 20202. Undergraduate thesis
Lembessi, Angeliki. “Ο οικιοκός των ’Αρχανων | O oikismos ton Archanon,” in Archaiologiki Ephemeris (1976) 12-43.
I haven’t located this article yet, but it contains a floor plan of the Archanes house model.
McEnroe, John. “A Typology of Minoan Neopalatial Houses.” American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Jan., 1982), pp. 3-19.
Palyvou, Clairy. “Circulatory Patterns in Minoans Architecture,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 195-203.
While this article is overly precious, it contains a rare floor plan for the Archanes house model.
Bibliographies
Minoan Houses and Settlements: General | Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology
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