ISBN-13: 9780904887655 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 338 str.
Block M is a substantial architectural complex comprising three
large buildings at the heart of the Minoan town of Palaikastro.
With traces of activity stretching back to the Prepalatial
period, and occupation in the Protopalatial period, Block M sees
its most intensive use in the Neopalatial period, in the 17th
century BC. This period sees widespread construction, followed by
two severe destruction horizons: the first seismic, the second
associated with the Theran eruption, by which time the Block may
already have been in ruins. Its subsequent history is very
different from that usually encountered elsewhere in the town -
it became an open area used only for the dumping of refuse in two
abandoned wells, without widespread reoccupation in the LM II-III
periods.
This volume presents the results of excavations conducted by the
British School at Athens, which uncovered these extensive remains
in the late 1980s, 1990s and 2003. These investigations have
helped to elucidate the character of this important town during
the Middle and early Late Bronze Ages, and offer valuable
evidence for relations between eastern Crete and sites in the
centre of the island such as Knossos.