Program

Friday 1 February 2008

Morning Session (chair J. C. Poursat)

9.00-9.40       Ilse Schoep, Introduction

9.40-10.20 Peter Tomkins, A biography of the Central Court at Knossos.

10.20-10.40       Coffee break

10.40-11.20 Todd Whitelaw, The urbanisation of prehistoric Knossos: demographic and comparative perspectives on Minoan state formation.

11.20-12.00 Colin Macdonald, The First Palace at Knossos

12.00-12.30      Discussion on the first session

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

Afternoon Session (chair P.M. Warren)

14.00-14.40 Jan Driessen, This (is)land is our (is)land: Social Organisation in Prepalatial Crete

14.40-15.20 Jean-Claude Poursat, The rise of elite groups at Malia in the Proto-Palatial period. A biography of Quartier Mu”

15.20-15.40    Coffee break

15.40-16.20 Carl Knappett, A regional network approach to Protopalatial complexity

16.20-17.00 Philip P. Betancourt, New Evidence for Lasithi's Interconnections during EM III-MM IA

17.00-17.30      Discussion on the second session

2 February (chair P.P. Betancourt)

9.00-9.40 Kostas Sbonias, Regional elite-groups, seal production and consumption at the end of the pre-palatial period in the example of a regional context at Asterousia mountains.

9.40-10.20 Pietro Militello, Emerging Authority: a functional analysis of the MM II settlement of Festòs

10.20-10.40      Coffee break

10.40-11.20 Maria Relaki, The Social Arenas of Tradition. Investigating Corporate and Individual Social Strategies in Prepalatial and Protopalatial Mesara

11.20-12.00 Simona Todaro, Craft production and social practice at Prepalatial Phaistos: the background to the first palace

12.00-12.30      Discussion on the second session

12.30-14.00                     Lunch break

Afternoon Session

14.00-15.00    Peter Warren, Concluding remarks + discussion