Resources for Minoan Houses and Communities

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

Updated March 4, 2026