Cycladic or Mainland?

Tankosić, Žarko; Katsianis, Markos

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“…This is to be expected, as the plain is arguably the section of southern Euboea best suited for agriculture. Agricultural and husbandry activities are reflected, in Classical and Hellenistic times particularly, in the abundance of remains of large storage vessels and, during the prehistoric times, in the apparently deliberate avoidance of major habitation in the plain itself, presumably to maximise yields during the times when extensive agricultural practices were used (Tankosić and Katsianis 2017).…”

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“…The same pattern is seen in the Kampos, for example. Conversely, most of the findspots with lithics and pottery – and, in some rare cases, architectural remains – tend to be placed in more rugged sections of the landscape or closer to the sea (Tankosić and Katsianis 2017). The absence of surface evidence in the Katsaronio for the post-EBA prehistoric presence, with Agios Nikolaos as the only current Karystian exception, is also comparable with the rest of southern Euboea.…”

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“…This contrasts with the rest of Euboea, where human habitation was well established at least in the Early Neolithic, if not before (Mavridis and Tankosić 2016a). In connection to this, the earliest LN evidence in the Karystia has been found at one site only so far, the Agia Triada cave (Mavridis 2017; Mavridis and Tankosić 2016a; Tankosić and Katsianis 2017), which is not suitable for habitation. The Karystia is considered one of the potential staging points for the colonisation of the Cycladic islands at the end of the Neolithic – or at least a contributor to the populations that permanently settled them (e.g.…”

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“…The analysis of this impressive assemblage provides us with clues regarding the use and procurement of lithics in the area. The large quantity of obsidian artefacts, which constitute the vast majority of the assemblage, indicates that obsidian was the primary raw material for lithic production, as at other FN (Cullen et al 2013; Mavridis and Tankosić 2016a) and EBA sites in Euboea (Tankosić 2011; Mavridis and Tankosić 2016b; Tankosić and Katsianis 2017). Moreover, judging by the large numbers of debitage pieces at some of the findspots, paired with evidence of most of the phases of the reduction sequence, we can conclude that extensive reduction did occur in these areas.…”

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New Data on Southern Euboean Landscapes: Results of the Norwegian Archaeological Survey in the Karystia

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We present the results of a diachronic survey of the Katsaronio plain in the Karystia, southern Euboea, Greece. The project was organised under the aegis of the Norwegian Institute at Athens with a permit from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture under the official name of the Norwegian Archaeological Survey in the Karystia. Five years of fieldwork (2012–16) covered an area of 20km2 in a large agricultural plain located about 5km north-west of the town of Karystos. The survey identified 99 new findspots with a range of dates spanning from the Final Neolithic to Early Modern times. Here we present the collected prehistoric through Roman data, which represent the bulk of the acquired evidence. One of the notable features of the assemblage is the vast quantity of lithics that were recovered, numbering over 9000 and consisting mainly of obsidian. Certain periods were absent from the evidence, such as post-Early Bronze Age prehistoric and Geometric, while others were represented with varying intensity. We offer an initial interpretation of the patterns observable in the evidence in an attempt to reconstruct the past use and habitation of this part of Euboea.

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The Norwegian Institute at Athens received a permit from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports in 2018 to conduct a five-year excavation project at the site of Gourimadi in southern Euboea. The first field season, conducted in June 2018, lasted for four weeks during which two trenches were opened at the site and partially excavated by a Norwegian-Greek team of researchers and students. The aim of the project is to understand the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in this part of the Aegean in the light of emerging regional maritime interaction networks and lasting settlement of the Cycladic islands. In addition, data collected from both the surface and excavation indicate that Gourimadi can contribute potentially crucial information needed for examining the Aegean prehistoric obsidian exchange and the introduction of metallurgy in the same region. Finally, the project is the first systematic (i.e. non-rescue) excavation of a prehistoric site in southern Euboea. The 2018 excavation confirmed our expectations about the importance of the site and has added to our understanding of prehistoric Euboea and the Aegean. The paper contains a brief preliminary but comprehensive report of the 2018 Gourimadi Archaeological Project results.

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Maria Ivanova, Bogdan Athanassov, Vanya Petrova, Desislava Takorova and Philip W. Stockhammer (eds). Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric Balkans.

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Food practices and their social implications are an important focus of investigation for a wide range of disciplines. In anthropology in particular the cross-cultural importance of meals or of the exchange of food and substances in creating and enduring social bonds gained attention already in Malinowski’s era and has remained a central theme of inquiry ever since. It is now widely acknowledged that food practices play an active role in the negotiation of social identities, relationships and distinctions at different social scales. In archaeology, the economic dimensions of subsistence practices have always held an interest, but food itself was not recognised as a significant analytical or theoretical concept until recently. Since the 2000s, however, there is a growing interest in the cultural and social analysis of food, accompanied by a surge of novel perspectives and methods in palaeo-botanical, zoo-archaeological, palaeo-anthropological and material culture research, including the regions in question here.

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Cycladic or Mainland?

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New Data on Southern Euboean Landscapes: Results of the Norwegian Archaeological Survey in the Karystia

New Data on Southern Euboean Landscapes: Results of the Norwegian Archaeological Survey in the Karystia

Gourimadi Archaeological Project. The results from the first excavation season

Maria Ivanova, Bogdan Athanassov, Vanya Petrova, Desislava Takorova and Philip W. Stockhammer (eds). Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric Balkans.

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