Archaic Urbanism at Azoria, Crete (2015)

Undergraduate: Andrew Cabaniss

Faculty Advisor: Donald Haggis
Department: Classics

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Urbanism in Archaic Greece was highly heterogeneous; many cities experimented with various forms of social and political organization before arriving at their Classical forms. Excavations at the site of Azoria, jointly run by UNC and Iowa State, have produced a wealth of information about the social and economic organization of this early urban settlement before the Classical period. My work focuses on contextualizing artifacts and spaces to understand how labor organization relates to class and gender, which currently suggests the use of domestic and civic slave labor for food and textile production.