Minoan architecture
Subtitle: materials and techniques
By: Joseph W. Shaw
Edition: Rev. and updated
Series: Studi di archeologia cretese -- 7; Studi di archeologia cretese -- 7.
Publisher: Bottega d'Erasmo
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Padova
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9788861250727
Subjects: Minoan Architecture; Palaces
Notes: Rev. version of a work originally published 1973 in vol. 49 (n.s. 33) of the Annuario della Scuola archeologica di Atene e delle missioni italiane in Oriente.

At head of title: Centro di archeologia cretese, Università di Catania.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1, Stone. Building stone, Quarrying and the transportation of stone, Tools for building, Masonry, Special uses of cut stone; title: ch. 2, Wood and timber. Types of, evidence for, and chief structural uses of wood in architecture, Wooden clamps and dowels; title: ch. 3, Sun-dried mud brick and terracotta; title: ch. 4, Lime and clay plasters. Composition and early uses, Later uses of lime plaster and its preparation, Floors, Ceilings and upper floors, Roofs and parapets, Calcestruzzo; title: ch. 5, Conspectus and beyond. Development and change, The builders, Diffusion, Minoan architectural styles; title: Appendixes: Metal used in building, Column bases, Dimensions of mud bricks, Terracotta pipes, channels, and catch-basins, Analyses of plasters.