The private houses at Poliochne developed with the megaron as the basic architectural unit, as is the norm in EBA settlements in the Northeast Aegean and Asia Minor. 

The Mycenaean palace (in red) as the core of the Mycenaean palaces.

The term megaron first appears in Homer, from where Heinrich Schliemann borrowed it to describe palaces or the central unit of palaces during the Late Mycenaean period in Mainland Greece. Gradually, use of the term was extended to describe houses whose basic unit is a long and narrow single-space or double-space hall and antechamber, as well as rectangular or apsidal buildings with corresponding arrangement and free of other spaces. In Greece the megaron appears already in the Neolithic Age, as a free-standing building at the centre of the settlement and with controlled access. The megaron, in free or composite form, dominated settlement architecture in the Bronze Age for thousands of years and reached its peak architecturally in the temples of ancient Greece.