Maud Devolder is a professor of archaeology of the Aegean world at Ghent University. She specializes in the study of Bronze Age Aegean architecture, especially in Minoan Crete, and has developed alternative approaches to the study of building processes, including the estimation of the labor-time invested in Aegean vernacular and elite edifices and analytical studies of the sequencing of monumental building projects. She directs the study and publication project of the Minoan Palace at Malia under the aegis of the French School at Athens, and she is currently the principal investigator of the ERC project DAEDALOS, which examines the degree of organizational centralization in the societies that managed the labor and material resources invested in 2nd-millennium BCE monumental building projects in the Aegean and Cyprus.
Maud Devolder
