The first excavations conducted by the British School at Athens at Palaikastro in 1902 uncovered a substantial building near Chiona beach, House A. The following year their attention shifted inland to Roussolakkos where a large Minoan town was uncovered, an area which has remained the focus of archaeological research at the site ever since. In 2022, with structures increasingly exposed by the sea, attention once more turned to Chiona beach in the form of a synergasia project between the British School at Athens, Lasithi Ephorate and the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities. This paper will focus on two buildings excavated by this project near House A, revealing with a long sequence of Bronze Age occupation. It will consider their significance and locate them in the long history of urbanism at Palaikastro.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 12 pm EST, 7 pm in Greece, Zoom format
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