Magasa, Crete

This article is about the Neolithic settlement in Crete. For the town in Italy, see Magasa, Italy.

Magasa (Greek: Μαγκασά) is a Neolithic settlement on the eastern part of the island of Crete in present-day Greece. Magasa is notable as a Neolithic Cretan settlement for some use of large room sizes in its multi-roomed residences. The ben-and-but style of housing design with some use of mud-dried brick has been noted as similar to that found in Neolithic Knossos.

See also

• Lato
• Kydonia

Sources

• British School at Athens, British School at Athens Managing Committee (1894) The Annual of the British School at Athens, Macmillan Publishers
• C. Michael Hogan, Knossos fieldnotes, Modern Antiquarian (2007)
• Arnold Walter Lawrence and Richard Allan Tomlinson (1996) Greek Architecture, Yale University Press, 243 pages ISBN 978-0-300-06492-6