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ences between “unplanned” Early Iron Age settlements and later,
Early Archaic and Classical settlements with respect to the social
implications of these different arrangements, both in household
and community scale. In the Early Iron Age, settlements such as
Zagora on Andros, or Ag. Andreas Siphnos, display an arrangement
of rectilinear units/households that not only vary considerably
in terms of size and construction techniques, but also in the
arrangement of internal space. 94
Moreover, the nature of many of these households makes it
difficult to define them as coherent residential units and hence to
comment in detail on their average size or internal organisation. We
have already noted that households within unplanned settlements
of the eighth and seventh century BC provide some examples of
architectural features familiar from the fifth and fourth century BC
structures, such as open courts and porch structures. However,
there are important differences between these early structures and
their successors within later “planned” settlements of the Early
Archaic or the Classical period: Interior living space in these earlier
houses was much more restricted, and the small number or rooms
they display, would have offered little opportunity for the separation
of activities or individuals. Even in the larger houses, space
was subdivided to a much lesser extent, and although there might
have been particular areas of the large rooms which were customarily
used for specific activities. Those activities and the individuals
performing them, would not have been separated physically. L. C.
Nevett has emphasised that the “courtyard” appearing in a number
of these early examples, although enclosed on more than one side,
does not seem to have provided the kind of “private environment”
that became so fundamental in the later Classical houses. 95
Equally, the spatial “flexibility” we have previously noted in
terms of the number of activities that could have been carried out,
inside and outside the house in the Early Iron Age, as a result of
the non-existing strict physical separation of spaces, is eventually
lost once the settlement assumes a planned arrangement either in
the form of “row-houses” or in the form of a proper “grid-plan”
(even in its pre-Hippodamian notion). As expected, a planned set-
94 CAMBITOGLOU et al. (1988) 71–161, fig. 57; LANG (1996) 182–184.
95 NEVETT (1999) 160–161.