Pavlopetri: A window on to Bronze Age suburban life (impressive CGI images)

BBC ^ | October 7, 2011 | Dr Jon Henderson

[Fred Nerks]

interesting, thanks!

VIDEO Divers to excavate 3500BC underwater city

[wildbill]

I can’t check it. My kid broke the clay tablet throwing it for the dog to chase.

But it was delivered just last week by the tablet boy.

[SunkenCiv]

Sort of a coup-neiform-d’etat.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fred Nerks!

[SunkenCiv]

;’) Probably those big-screens are responsible for the sealevel rise that drowned the city in the first place. ;’)

[ZULU]

2000 BC would have been pre-Myceanaen and contemporaneous with the earliest Minoan, no? Wonder if they were Greek or Minoan?

[elli1]

Pretty cool project.

Only thing is, as a carpenter’s daughter, I want to know how that one & only gabled-roof building with what look like awning windows sneaked in there.

Building code violation? Or artistic license??

[SunkenCiv]

2000 BC, probably flat roofed, or shed roofed, but that’s usually impossible to determine, as roof parts tend to have been of lighter materials that haven’t survived. Sometimes this is due to fire when a town is sacked and burned. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[SunkenCiv]

Dang, that’s a good one. Unless an archive (or monumental inscription) is found, it’s probably not going to yield to scrutiny. The Mycenaeans of that time appear to have learned most of their building styles and techniques from the Minoans. Later the Mycenaeans came up with the mighty corbelled dome (the so-called Treasury of Atreus being the best-known example).

[SunkenCiv]

I've been streaming this during the afternoon/evening, Ep 6 he visits Pavlopetri.

After seeing the sites of Monemvaisa, Peter continues on to Elafonisos, before venturing to the island of Kythira.

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