The Palaikastro project team co-directed by Prof. Carl Knappett (University of Toronto Canada), Dr Alexandra Livarda (University of Nottingham, UK) and Dr Nicoletta Momigliano (University of Bristol, UK) has developed the project across four excavation seasons of the Minoan town which will be followed by several study seasons.
In the fourth phase of the project that explores a large Bronze Age settlement in Palaikastro, Crete students and staff from the three universities, as well as from other universities from Greece, Belgium, Spain and the United States joined forces and revealed a new block of the town with evidence for a range of activities, including the production of purple-dye. Landscape work was also completed and the results are now being combined with those of the bioarchaeology carried out on site and coring from across the town’s territory. Exciting new ideas have been put forward as a result to suggest a largely pastoral landscape in the East of the island and a complex management system of the land and the sea, entangled in the rise and final demise of this important town in Bronze Age Crete.
Archaeology aside, the summer at Palaikastro was also a time for local dance, fiestas and team bonding with the PK15, games of fun run, football and cricket. A great team and a lot of fun made another amazing year at Palaikastro until PK16!
Posted on Wednesday 30th September 2015