Jan Driessen

Jan Driessen has an MA in Archaeology and one in Ancient History, both from the University of Leuven, where he also defended his PhD. He is emeritus professor of Greek Archaeology of the UCLouvain and is honorary director of the Belgian School at Athens (2012-2022). He directs the Bronze Age excavations at Sissi on Crete and co-directs the excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Driessen J.; Letesson Q.  (03-01-2024). The Gathering: Collectivity and the Development of Bronze Age Cretan Society. Journal of Archaeological Research, 32 (1) , 1-58More Information

Polig M.; Hermon S.; Jusseret S.; Sorrentino G.; Driessen J.; Kanta A.; Bretschneider J.  (01-01-2023). High-Resolution 3D Documentation of Archaeological Artefacts. A Copper-Alloy Object from Pyla-Kokkin. Digital Biblical Studies, 6, 46-71More Information

Driessen J.  (06-01-2021). Revisiting the Minoan palaces: Ritual commensality at Sissi. Antiquity, 95 (381) , 686-704More Information

Nafplioti A.; Driessen J.; Schmitt A.; Crevecoeur I.  (02-01-2021). Mobile (after-)lifeways: People at pre- and protopalatial Sissi (Crete). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 35More Information

Driessen J.; Sarris A.  (11-16-2020). Archaeology and Geophysics in Tandem on Crete. Journal of Field Archaeology, 45 (8) , 571-587More Information

Driessen J.  (01-10-2019). The Santorini eruption. An archaeological investigation of its distal impacts on Minoan Crete. Quaternary International, 499, 195-204More Information

Driessen J.  (01-01-2019). Claiming the bones, naming the stones? Appropriating a minoan past. Aegaeum, 43, 765-774

Hermon S.; Polig M.; Driessen J.; Jans G.; Bretschneider J.  (09-01-2018). An integrated 3D shape analysis and scientific visualization approach to the study of a Late Bronze . Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 10More Information

Sarris A.; Manataki M.; Déderix S.; Driessen J.  (09-30-2017). Revealing the structural details of the minoan settlement of Sissi, eastern Crete, through geophysic. AP2017: 12th International Conference of Archaeological Prospection 12th-16th September 2017, University of Bradford, 206-208

Driessen J.  (01-01-2017). Preface. Minoan Earthquakes: Breaking the Myth through Interdisciplinarity, 5-6More Information

Driessen J.  (01-01-2017). ‘In bulls doth the earth-shaker delight’ - Introduction to the volume. Minoan Earthquakes: Breaking the Myth through Interdisciplinarity, 19-28

Driessen J.; Knappett C.  (01-01-2014). The late minoan i building at vai (Crete). Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique, 138 (2) , 451-466More Information

Jusseret S.; Driessen J.; Letesson Q.  (01-01-2013). Minoan lands? Some remarks on land ownership on bronze age crete. An Archaeology of Land Ownership, 46-69More Information

Driessen J.  (01-12-2012). Malia. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age AegeanMore Information

Driessen J.  (01-01-2003). Towards an archaeology of crisis: Defining the long-term impact of the Bronze Age Santorini eruption. Natural Disasters and Cultural Change, 250-263More Information

Schoep I.; Driessen J.  (12-01-2002). An inscribed handle from Palaikastro (PK Zb 25). Minos, 37-38, 77-80

Driessen J.; Macdonald C.F.  (06-20-2000). The eruption of the Santorini volcano and its effects on Minoan Crete. Geological Society Special Publication, 171, 81-93More Information

Driessen J.  (01-01-1999). 'The archaeology of a dream': The reconstruction of Minoan public architecture. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 12 (1) , 121-127More Information

Macgillivray J.A.; Sackett L.H.; Driessen J.M.  (01-01-1998). Excavations at palaikastro, 1994 and 1996. The Annual of the British School at Athens, 93, 221-268More Information

Driessen J.  (01-01-1994). A fragmentary linear a inscription from petsophas, palaikastro (pk za 20). Kadmos, 33 (2) , 149-152More Information

MacGillivray J.A.; Sackett L.H.; Driessen J.M.; Hemingway S.  (01-01-1992). Excavations at palaikastro 1991. The Annual of the British School at Athens, 87, 121-152More Information

Macgillivray J.A.; Sackett L.H.; Driessen J.; Bridges R.; Smyth D.  (01-01-1989). Excavations at palaikastro. The Annual of the British School at Athens, 84, 417-445More Information

Macgillivray J.A.; Sackett L.H.; Driessen J.; Smyth D.  (01-01-1987). Excavations at palaikastro, 1986. The Annual of the British School at Athens, 82, 135-154More Information

Driessen J.  (01-01-1987). Earthquake-Resistant Construction and the Wrath of the “Earth-Shaker”. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 46 (2) , 171-178More Information