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A Network Approach to Urbanization and Processes of Invention/Innovation in the Material Culture of Bronze Age Crete (3100-1200 BCE)

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN    more  Organization address address: Place De L'Universite 1 city: LOUVAIN LA NEUVE postcode: 1348 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Jan Cognome: Driessen Email: send email Telefono: +32 10 474880 Fax: +32 10 474870
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Belgium [BE]
Totale costo	222˙923 €
EC contributo	222˙923 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IOF
Funding Scheme	MC-IOF
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-10-01   -   2016-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN  Organization address address: Place De L'Universite 1 city: LOUVAIN LA NEUVE postcode: 1348 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Jan Cognome: Driessen Email: send email Telefono: +32 10 474880 Fax: +32 10 474870	BE (LOUVAIN LA NEUVE)	coordinator	222˙923.40

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The project focuses on the relationship between urbanization and processes of invention/innovation in the material culture of the Bronze Age society of Minoan Crete (3100-1200 BCE). In essence, it first proposes to address issues of settlement growth, layout and elaboration, but also plans to develop a diachronic approach to connections between settlements and to investigate issues of site hierarchies. Methodologically, along with a description of urban infrastructures, the intra-site study will use space syntax, an approach to spatial organization through graph analysis, to highlight characteristics of the selected sites in terms of accessibility, street layout, and density of occupation. At the inter-site level, comparisons will allow the production of a typology of settlement patterns. The project will subsequently adopt a network approach to model and test hypotheses in terms of how settlements related to one another through time and across different scales (local, regional, island-wide). Secondly, the project intends to consider the appearance of technological innovations constituting crucial watersheds in the production of various aspects of Minoan material culture (including architecture, ceramics, glyptic, metalwork, script, etc.) and analyze their spatial distribution. The proportion of technological novelties exhibited in the archaeological data of various types of settlements through the history of their occupation will then be highlighted. Finally, on the basis of the hierarchies of settlements and the demographic processes they implied, a network analysis of scenarios of diffusion of innovations will be conducted and evaluated in terms of their congruity with archaeological data. Through these analyses, the project ultimately aims at exploring to what extent urbanization played a role in the appearance of technological inventions, the spread of innovations, but also the persistence of traditional expressions of material culture of Bronze Age Crete'