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Abstract
This volume contains the proceedings of the conference Mycenaeans up to date: The
archaeology of the north-eastern Peloponnesecurrent concepts and new directions,
which was held on 1016 November 2010, under the auspices of the Swedish Institute
at Athens. The published papers reveal the latest news in the field of Mycenaean
archaeology in the Argolid and the surrounding areas. Ongoing fieldwork, as well as new
interpretations of the extant archaeological material is presented and discussed in
detail. The first part of the volume consists of papers dealing with new, unpublished
evidence regarding many of the well-known Argive sites, including Mycenae, Tiryns,
Argos, Midea, and the Nemea Valley, among others. The second part is devoted to in-
depth studies on a number of major themes, such as Mycenaean architecture,
administration, mortuary practices and religion.
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Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Universit libre de Bruxelles, 14 -16
November 2013
Abstract
This volume brings together a number of papers that were presented at the
international symposium on Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society. Function and
Role of Ceramics in Early Greece organised by the University of Athens (UoA) and the
Universit libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and held at the Universit libre de Bruxelles in
November 2013. The papers are divided in five parts, following the themes of the
conference: production and workshops, context and function, pottery and rituals,
mobility and interaction, iconography and early society. Emphasis is placed on ancient
ceramics as valuable testimonies to human expressions, reflecting the needs, aspirations
and ideas of the societies that produced and used them.
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Abstract
Mycenaean civilisation and its achievements are primarily associated with lowland and
coastal areas. Surplus production and trade led to the formation of strong centres of
power. But what happened in the mountainous, landlocked country of the
Peloponnese? All the handbooks of Mycenaean studies regard Arcadia as a sparsely
populated and largely isolated area, where the mainstream Mycenaean world arrived
relatively late. Is this really true and, if so, to what extent? Judging from the
subsequent historical data, the very position of Arcadia among the powerful
Peloponnesian states predetermines its fate. Palatial centres flourished in the Late
Helladic Argolid, Messenia and Laconia. Research conducted in the past few decades
in the W and NW Peloponnese and beyond, in areas that were previously considered
as periphery of the Mycenaean world, has refuted this image and demonstrated
that prosperous settlements and important local centres developed in the non-palatial
world as well. But, the situation in the heart of the Peloponnese is still obscure. This
book is an attempt to reconstruct the image of Mycenaean Arcadia based on the
archaeological and topographical data, more than four decades after the systematic
investigation of R. Howell (BSA 1970) in the region.
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Abstract
The volume presents the study of the material associated with textile manufacture,
deriving from the Neolithic and Minoan levels of Phaistos and Ayia Triada. It includes 6
chapters and 5 technical appendixes. In the first chapter, the archaeological sequence of
both sites is described with particular attention to the areas and periods with more
important evidence of textile production. In chapter II, the nature and consistence of
this evidence is discussed. Only some of the tools used during the different phases of
the chane opratoire of textile manufacture are found in the archaeological record as
many of them are of perishable material and the surviving items, mainly spind-whorls
(SW) and loom-weights (LW), are often difficult to identify due to the unspecialised
nature of the tools themselves. Chapter III includes the catalogue of tools divided
according to sites, classes (SW, LW, spinning vases, needles, other materials, textiles)
and typologies. The following information for each item is supplied: provenance, year of
excavation, current location, morphology, fabric, measurements (in mm) and weight (in
grams). Chronology is also added where possible unless it is given for the whole class,
e.g. for kylix stems or spools. In chapter IV, the different typologies of SWs and LWs are
analysed according to morphology, fabric, use, wear and metrical data. In chapter V,
find contexts are analysed according to sites, chronological horizons, areas, rooms,
spaces and loci. Contexts have been reconstructed bottom up, starting from all the
items with the same provenance (forming a group), therefore when possible linking
the groups in deposit i.e., sets of tools originally belonging to the same systemic
context. After the careful review of the contexts, chapter VI atempts a wider
reconstruction of the technical and social transformations of textile manufacture in
Phaistos and Ayia Triada from the Neolithic to the final Bronze Age.
Introduzione [185]
Analisi dei contesti da Fests [189]
Analisi dei contesti da Haghia Triada [231]
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Abstract
How does intentionally inflicting damage to material objects mediate the human
experience in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean? For all of the diversity in cultural
practice in the civilisations of the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Crete, Cyprus and
the eastern coast of Italy between 4000-750 BC, archaeologists consider the custom of
ritually killing objects as a normative, if inconsistent practice. Yet as artefacts that are
alike only in that they have been disarticulated, intentionally destroyed objects defy
easy characterization. Such pieces frequently stand outside of clearly defined patterns.
This volume is an initial step in addressing a gap in the scholarship by aiming to
deconstruct and contextualize the practice of intentional fragmentation. The case
studies in this volume present a diverse range of evidence, including pottery, lithics,
metals, jewellery, figurines, buildings and human remains, in an exploration of the wide
spectrum of meanings behind material destruction.
Jan Driessen, Fragmented souvenirs: Mario Denti, Des biens de prestige grecs
Introduction to the volume [15-19] intentionnellement fragments dans un
contexte indigne de la Mditerrane
Kate Harrell, The Social Life of occidentale au VIIe sicle av. J.-C. [99-116]
[21-24]
PDF Jennifer M. Webb & David Frankel,
Coincident biographies: Bent and broken
John Chapman, Bits and pieces: blades in Bronze Age Cyprus [117-142]
Fragmentation in Aegean Bronze Age
context [25-47] Kate Harrell, Piece Out: Comparing the
Intentional Destruction of Swords in the
Stratos Nanoglou, Situated intentions: Early Iron Age and the Mycenae Shaft
Providing a framework for the destruction Graves [143-153]
of objects in Aegean prehistory [49-59] PDF
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Michael J. Boyd, Destruction and other
Carl Knappett, The rough and the smooth: material acts of transformation in
Care and carelessness in the forgetting of Mycenaean funerary practice [155-165]
buildings [61-73]
Giorgos Vavouranakis & Chryssi Bourbou,
Maria Pantelidou Gofa, Damaged Pottery, Breaking Up the Past: Patterns of
Damaged Skulls at the Tsepi, Marathon Fragmentation in Early and Middle Bronze
Cemetery [75-79] Age Tholos Tomb Contexts in Crete [167-
196]
Colin Renfrew, Evidence for ritual breakage PDF
in the Cycladic Early Bronze Age: The Special
Deposit South at Kavos on Keros [81-98]
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Um die Mitte des 9. Jhs. v. Chr. bringen die Tpfer und Vasenmaler auf Kreta einen
eigenwilligen geometrischen Keramikstil hervor, dessen Hauptmerkmale kurvolineare
Ornamente und erste figrliche Darstellungen nach dem Ende der bronzezeitlichen
minoischen Kultur sind. Besonders die Ornamente - Schlaufenlinien, Spiralen und
Flechtbnder - sind in der Forschung hufig auf nahstlichen Einfluss zurckgefhrt
worden. Nach einem berblick ber die Entwicklung der kretischen Vasenformen von
der Mitte des 9. Jhs. bis zum Ende des 8. Jhs. v. Chr. wird der Dekor der Gefe
analysiert. Hierbei liegt der Fokus auf der Frage, ob der Kontakt, den die Kreter mit den
Kulturen des Vorderen Orients hatten, als Stimulus ausreichend gewesen ist, um die
Ornamentsysteme der Gefe zu beeinflussen oder ob nicht auch eine autochthone
Entwicklung denkbar ist, die aus einem Rckgriff auf eigene knstlerische Traditionen
resultiert.
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Abstract
This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th annual conference in Postgraduate
Cypriot Archaeology (POCA 2009), which was held at the Ioannou Centre for Classical
and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford from the 19th to the 21st of November
2009. POCA 2009 encompassed 24 presentations by postgraduate students and young
researchers, coming from a number of institutions and universities in Europe and the
United States. The meeting provided a unique opportunity for the new generation of
Cypriot archaeologists to present their work and interact in a friendly and productive
environment.
The papers included in this volume cover a wide time-span, ranging chronologically from
the Chalcolithic period to the Medieval times. They present the results of new
archaeological excavations and research, and comprise archaeological, anthropological
and scientific approaches to the material culture of ancient Cyprus.
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a pilot project which combines, for the first time,
biodistance and strontium isotope analyses in the study of human skeletal remains from
Early Bronze Age Crete (third millennium BC). Information from these analyses offers, in
a direct way, insights into the biological distance, and consequently the gene flow and
mobility patterns, among human populations in eastern Crete. The results are
synthesised with the evidence of funerary practices in order to explore the nature of
interaction among communities in eastern Crete. The biodistance analysis supports a
strong genetic affinity between the populations represented at the two Kephala Petras
skeletal assemblages, while the results of the available strontium isotope analysis favour
their local origin; thus the combined results suggest the lack of significant population
influx. The biological distance of the two chronologically contemporary populations at
Livari-Skiadi, also manifesting completely different patterns of mortuary disposal, is of
particular interest since it contrasts with the Petras situation and raises issues of intra-
community distinctions, cultural and biological.
Abstract
This article examines the inception of writing on Crete in the second millennium BC from
a fresh methodological perspective. It aims to develop a synoptic understanding of the
origin, purpose, experience, and significance of the earliest attestations of writing on the
island, to investigate the context of its creation, and to explore the cultural triggers that
underlie the application of writing in the context of Middle Minoan Crete. Three key
points are considered: the problematic definition of early writing on Crete, the possible
identification of the subject matter of the Cretan hieroglyphic inscriptions on sealstones,
and the scripts level of indebtedness to pre-existing models. These paths of
investigation are also crucial points of departure for understanding the phenomenon of
early writing in more general terms, from a multidisciplinary perspective that seeks to
advocate a synergic collaboration between anthropology, archaeology, epigraphy and
sociolinguistics.
Abstract
In this paper, we re-examine inscribed items of Minoan jewellery in the light of the
increasing number of studies on ancient eastern Mediterranean jewellery and its
meanings. We reach a fourfold conclusion. First: as these objects, with one exception,
are clearly associated with adult females, while the exception (a ring) cannot be
affiliated with a particular gender or age, inscribed Minoan jewellery seems so far to lie
mostly outside the purview of men. Second: these objects were almost certainly used to
construct and broadcast the elite identity (and perhaps authority) of the people who
wore them. Third: the objects may also have served as apotropaic amulets and/or
symbols of rites of passage for their wearers, thus expressing certain rituals associated
with the lives of the people who wore them. Fourth: inscribed items of Minoan jewellery
may have played an active role in linking elite Minoan (and particularly elite
Minoan female) identity and authority to the divine.
Abstract
The paper examines how the dromos emerged as an architectural feature in Mycenaean
tombs and why it became the standard type of access device. It focuses on collective
tombs with lateral entrances of LH I and transitional LH I/IIA date in mainland Greece,
but considers also a number of MH tombs with side entrances. The first part discusses
the architectural evidence. The second part examines permanent installations and
evidence of possible ritual activities from dromoi. The third part explores the symbolic
and performative aspects of dromoi. It is argued that the dromos was not an integral
part of Mycenaean funerary architecture from the very beginning, but came about
gradually out of a long process of experimentation, which originated in MH tumuli and
was completed in late LH I or LH I/IIA tholoi and chamber tombs. This process merged
different building traditions and combined practical considerations with new ritual
needs arising at a period of intense social and cultural change.
Abstract
The first substantial corpus of developed and complex stone vases emerged on the
Greek mainland in the shaft graves of Mycenae (Middle Helladic III Late Helladic I) and
Abstract
This article focuses on a distinct type of clay vessel which formed part of both the Late
Minoan and the Mycenaean repertoire: the amphoroid krater. In contrast to the
Mycenaean version of the shape, with its often elaborate decoration of chariots and
other pictorial designs, the Minoan amphoroid krater has up to now not received much
attention. The present paper intends to redress this imbalance by exploring the origin
and development of the Minoan amphoroid krater, its function(s) and its relationship
with its Mycenaean counterpart.
Abstract
The building at Toumba, Lefkandi, stands unique in its time and place. The remains of
this monument are significant in terms of size and elaboration, and also on account of
the way it has been reconstructed and interpreted as the ancestor of the Greek
peripteral temple. The primary concern of this article is the structural evaluation of the
Abstract
Stone beads from the site of Troy, Turkey, have been studied in order to understand
better the nature of lapidary technology and trade during the third to second
millennium BC in this part of Anatolia. Eighteen carnelian and two rock crystal beads
were documented through visual examinations, measurement and photography to
identify the raw material, as well as general aspects of manufacture and style. Silicone
impressions of the drill holes as well as some of the engraved surfaces were made in
order to study the nature of drilling and abrasion under a Scanning Electron Microscope.
Through these studies, it is possible to identify the presence of different types of bead
production and drilling technology during each major chronological period at the site.
Some of the beads may have been produced at Troy or at nearby sites in Anatolia while
others have links to the southern Aegean and eastern Mediterranean regions as well as
the more distant regions of Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley.
Abstract
The pre-Greek history of Imbros, i.e. the period before the arrival of the Athenians, is
still unclear, despite renewed archaeological activities. Thus, the early history of the
island can still be written only with the help of philology, which, however, provides only
fragmentary data. Early investigation identified the first inhabitants of the island with
Carians, who were followed by Thracians and, between 700 and 550 BC, by
Tyrrhenians/Pelasgians. The crucial difference between early and current research is
that the linguistic reality of these terms and the historical-ethnic landscape of Late
Bronze Age and Early Iron Age western Anatolia are much better understood nowadays.
The starting point of this investigation is a new interpretation of the classical sources,
the name of Imbros itself and the remaining onomastic data (including an assumed local
god called Imbrasos). The analysis leads to the following sketch: the first identifiable
Abstract
This study presents a critical evaluation of the existing theories concerning the
emergence of Philistine culture, with special reference to the role of Cyprus in this
process. To this end, an updated comparative analysis of Philistine pottery is presented
and functional as well as symbolic aspects of this assemblage are explored. It is
suggested that during the first decades of Philistine settlement a crystallisation of the
new ethnic identity took place among the immigrants, and the material culture of 12th-
century BC Cyprus was consciously rejected as a differentiating strategy. Therefore,
although most of the settlers originated from the Aegean and not from Cyprus, the
island played a central role in Philistine ethnogenesis.
Abstract
This paper deals with a group of protopalatial (MM IB - MM IIB) vessels found at the site
of Hagia Triada, all bearing a mark on the bottom. The complete study of all the pottery
recovered during the systematic investigation of the protopalatial levels of the site,
carried out by La Rosa from 1978 to 2011, has led to the identification of 9 vases or
fragments characterized by a mark, in the form of a low relief left by the upper,
removable part of the potters wheel (the so-called bat). Such marks are present only on
a few vases, both open and closed shapes with a semicoarse fabric. Sometimes they
include motifs very close to those found at Hagia Triada, as well as on similar vessels
from the nearby palatial site of Phaistos and Kommos. In the present paper, the marks
are not considered per se, but within the framework of a technological, typological and
contextual analysis of the vessels involved. On the basis of such analysis it is argued that
the marks must be interpreted as potters marks and that they were related to a
controlled process of production of the vases.
Lets start form (a) scratch: New ways of looking at vessels function
Bartomiej Lis
Archeologia LXI (2012): 7-14
Abstract
The article discusses various types of use-wear that can be observed on Mycenaean
tableware. It is demonstrated that careful analysis and interpretation of such traces can
provide new insights into the vessels function. Material presented here derives from
Abstract
The bezel of a gold signet ring was found during the excavation of an important tholos
tomb southwest of Perama Mylopotamou, in use from LM IIIA1 until the beginning of
LM IIIB. The representation on the golden foil of the bezel consists of three religious
themes corresponding to interconnected iconographic fields: a tree cult, an epiphany
and an arrangement of offerings. The scene depicts the moment when the goddess has
just arrived in the terrestrial world; the deity is portrayed alone in her anthropomorphic
form, seated in the sacred place. All constituent elements of the scene point to the
lifecycle of plants and obviously signify the life-giving powers of nature that ensure its
everlasting fruitfulness. Besides this new evidence for the subject of Minoan religion,
the bezel also raises interesting hermeneutical questions with regard to the artistically
innovative rendering of the sacred gifts as well as the symbolic unification of the human
and divine worlds.
Abstract
The present article concerns the genre of hunting depictions in Mycenaean art of the
Palatial and Postpalatial periods (LH III-C). After briefly surveying extant hunting images
from the Early Mycenaean period (LH I-II), I present and give a stylistic analysis of the
extant Late Mycenaean works of art, which comprise sealstones, products of
metalworking, wall and vase paintings and larnakes. Besides presenting the relevant
depictions and discussing the predominant media for hunting iconography in each
period, I illustrate artistic influences from other major cultures and also discuss the
different layers of meaning that Late Mycenaean hunting depictions contain. These
include the public display of aristocratic hunting skills, the concomitant social
Abstract
The Neolithic period in Attica has attracted limited attention in the past in comparison
to other parts of Greece. The presentation of the finds from the DAI collection allows a
new assessment of the pottery types that were produced in Neolithic Attica as well as a
diachronic analysis of the settlements in this region. A number of new sites are
presented as well as others from which limited or no finds have been published. This
article has allowed a general, but regional presentation of pottery trends through the
Neolithic phases from Attica. Thus, comparisons with other neighbouring regions such
as Boiotia, Euboia, the Cyclades and the Peloponnese can be made, underlining the
common as well as the regional peculiarities. Furthermore, the diachronic analysis of the
settlement patterns from the EN to the FN phase reveals different preferences and
choices according to the changing socio-economic conditions of each period. Similar
patterns and divergences can be seen in other regions, like the Peloponnese, Central
Greece, Thessaly and the Aegean islands, where analogous studies or systematic surveys
have been conducted. Finally, an overall picture of Neolithic Attica is provided in an
attempt to understand how this region developed through time.
Abstract
This contribution discusses the Late Bronze Age site of Dragojna, which is situated at the
northern fringe of the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria. The local ceramic find material is
presented in representative quantity, classified according to its regional and
transregional context, and evaluated in terms of its significance for the dating of the
settlement site and the relative dating of Late Bronze Age cultural groups in the central
Balkan region. In addition to handmade local pottery, fragments of Mycenaean ceramics
were also found at Dragojna. The latter are classified typologically and chronologically
and their provenance - a coastal area of Thessaly - is determined by means of chemical
analysis (neutron activation analysis). Finally, Mycenaean contacts with the Thracian
regions in the middle Mycenaean period are summarized and discussed against the
Abstract
In 2009, the so-called Sacred Tree at the Samian Heraion - a cult tree marking the
Bronze Age origin of the sanctuary according to . Walter, a tree grown fortuitously in
Archaic times according to H. Kienast - was excavated for a third time. In the process, it
was discovered to be a stump deposited rather than a tree having grown in its eventual
find spot. The tree was felled at an age of approximately 60 years in 676 11 B.C., as
established by wiggle matching. The deposition of its stump in the centre of the
sanctuary is indicative of its cultic importance, possibly as a xoanon or other ritual
marker, which was laid to rest here. The temporary removal of the stump provided an
opportunity to re-examine the Bronze Age pavings A and B, which had already been
identified by H. Walter and A. Clemente in this location. Conical cups, partly deposited -
as in Cretan Neopalatial sanctuaries -upside-down on paving A, demonstrate, along with
pottery of Minoan type from Walters excavations, that the Samian Heraion - like the
sanctuary of Athena at Miletus - is Minoan in origin.
da es keinen so gelehrten und tchtigen Mann gibt als Sie: The Heinrich Schliemann-
Wilhelm Drpfeld correspondance, 1879-1890
Stefanie A. H. Kennell
Mitteleilungen des Deutschen Archologischen Instituts. Athenische Mitteilungen 125 (2010)
[2013]: 257-308
Abstract
Previous studies of the relationship between Wilhelm Drpfeld and Heinrich
Schliemann, as well as the influence each exerted upon the other, have been based
largely on the editions of Ernst Meyer (Briefwechsel II has only seven letters by Drpfeld
and eight from Schliemann), remarks contained in the Herrmann - Maa edition of the
Schliemann -Virchow correspondence, and some letters by Drpfeld to his father-in-law
Friedrich Adler (Archives, DAI Berlin). The Gennadius Library in Athens, however, holds
more than 130 letters by Drpfeld from the years 1879 and 1881 -1889, as well as
copies of more than 70 letters from Schliemann to Drpfeld 1881-1890. This study of
the letters, many of them still unpublished, illuminates the nature and development of
the historically significant Drpfeld - Schliemann collaboration appreciably on both the
personal and the professional levels, not least with regard to Drpfelds increasing
The allocations of HORD to ma-ka and de-qo-no in the Fq tablets from Thebes
Maurizio Del Freo
Kadmos 53 (1-2) (2014): 71-78
Webb, M. J., 2013. Review of T. Kiely, (ed). Bryce, T., 2009. Review of M.O. Korfmann
Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum (ed.), Troia eines Siedlungshgels und seiner
(London 2009), Ancient West and East 12: Landschaft (Mainz 2006), Ancient West and
400-402. East 8: 384-385.
ABSTRACT
The 4th International Landscape Archaeology Conference will be hosted by the Department of
Archaeology and Ancient History. It will be held at Uppsala University, the oldest univesrity in
Scandinavia - founded in 1477 - on 23-25 of August, 2016. The LAC 2016 Scientific Committee
is now inviting submissions of abstracts for individual papers and posters!
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The British Schools Stratigraphic Museum at Knossos seeks to appoint an individual to take a
supporting role in the curation and documentation of its holdings. The successful applicant
will join an established project, completion of which will take a further two years. The post is
funded by a grant from the Institute for the Study of Aegean Prehistory and is for 18 months
in the first instance, with a stipend totalling 6,900.
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The American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens award
the Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellowship to encourage the study of the Greco-Roman world.
The Fellowship will be awarded for research in Greece and Italy in alternate years. It is
expected that the Fellow will use either the American Academy in Rome (AAR) or the
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) as a base from which to pursue work
through trips to sites, museums, or repositories of materials of interest to the Fellow's studies.
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A list of several fellowships, grants and scholarships with different deadlines during the whole
year.
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A.G. Leventis Fellowship in Ancient Greek Studies offers an exciting opportunity to pursue a
programme of advanced research under the auspices of the world-ranking Institute of Greece,
Rome and the Classical Tradition. We invite applications from scholars of any specialisation
within the broad field of ancient Greek studies. Applicants will have normally completed their
PhD no more than five years before taking up the post.
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During the whole academic year the BSA offers a series of awards, studentships, and
fellowships to support research of all types and at all stages of your academic career.
Descriptions of each award can be found by clicking on the individual link. These listings also
show whether an award is currently open and to what deadline. Calls for applications are
posted on the front page as deadlines approach.
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Answering questions about the origins of The Western Argolid Regional Project
Greek cult and Greek athletics are at the (WARP) is an interdisciplinary
heart of the agenda of the Mt. Lykaion archaeological project that seeks to
Excavation and Survey Project. Since 2004 understand the nature of human activity in
the project has been working at the site of the western Argolid (southern Greece) in all
the Sanctuary of Zeus and since 2006 periods of prehistory and history. More
excavation has been underway. The project, specifically, there are three research
co-sponsored by the University of objectives that guide the project. The first is
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and to document the settlement history of the
Anthropology, the University of Arizona and western Argolid by identifying the remains
the Greek Archaeological Service under the of various loci of activity in the landscape,
auspices of the American School of Classical from permanent settlements to farms and
Studies at Athens, has finished seven very fortifications. The second is to understand
productive years in the field. Beginning in the historical development of various forms
Summer 2011 during the first of two study of political authority in the study area, and
seasons, members of the excavation team the local responses to these authorities. The
will re-examine the recently excavated third is to trace the various relationships
evidence from the ash altar of Zeus at the and networks that connected the
southern peak of Mt. Lykaion, 4500 feet communities of study area to communities
above sea level as well as the results of located in other regions of southern Greece.
excavated evidence from the area of the Our methodology is interdisciplinary, and
lower sanctuary where there exists the only includes archaeology, history, ethnography,
visible hippodrome in the Greek world as and geology. Our primary method is an
well as several other important sanctuary intensive pedestrian survey of our 30
buildings. square kilometer study area. This method,
now well-established in Greek archaeology,
consists of systematically walking over the
landscape, noting and collecting evidence
for past activity.
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SPECIAL THANKS
We would like to thank cordially the libraries of the Archaeological Society at Athens and the British
School at Athens for any help they provide us.