Koutroulou Magoula in Phthiotida, Central Greece:

Hamilakis, Yannis; Kyparissi‐Apostolika, Nina; Loughlin, Thomas R.; Carter, Tristan; Cole, James R.; Facorellis, Yorgos; Katsarou, Stella; Kaznesi, Aggeliki; Pentedeka, Areti; Tsamis, Vasileios; Zorzin, Nicolas

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“…The ongoing collaborative survey of the basins of Sykourio and Elateia in northeastern Thessaly (Reingruber et al forthcoming) and the intensive exploration of the area around the modern village of Prodromos in western Thessaly by the LTNS project (Krahtopoulou et al forthcoming b) are expected to start filling in this tangible gap in our regional knowledge. Moreover, the research agendas of several recent and ongoing projects (for example LTNS, Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project and Platia Magoula Zarkou: Cultural Change during the Sixth Millennium BChttps://www.orea.oeaw.ac.at/en/research/prehistoric-phenomena/platia-magoula-zarkou-in-thessalygreece/) have incorporated geoarchaeological, palaeoenvironmental and bioarchaeological studies that are already shedding new light on Neolithic landscapes, environments and lifeways (Hamilakis et al 2017;Koromila et al 2018;Roussos and Kyparissi-Apostolika 2018;Krahtopoulou et al forthcoming b).…”

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Current approaches to the Neolithic of Thessaly

Krahtopoulou¹

2019

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This paper explores important new evidence from recent and ongoing landscape and excavation projects carried out in Thessaly that revolutionizes our understanding of the Neolithic in the region. Moving from wider landscapes to individual archaeological sites, the paper focuses on complexity and diversity in the spatio-temporal manifestation and internal structure of Neolithic settlements, and highlights the potential of the current direction of research to illuminate the lifeways of the Neolithic people of Thessaly.

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Current approaches to the Neolithic of Thessaly

Krahtopoulou¹

2019

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“…The open areas were extremely rich in finds, including pottery, faunal remains and other feasting paraphernalia (cf. Hamilakis & Kyparissi-Apostolika 2012; Hamilakis et al 2017; Kyparissi-Apostolika 2003). Various categories of data are currently under analysis and study, including a large and diverse collection of clay figurines, numbering more than 400, found in diverse contexts and locations across the site.…”

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Digital Sensoriality: The Neolithic Figurines from Koutroulou Magoula, Greece

Papadopoulos¹,

Hamilakis²,

Kyparissi‐Apostolika³

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The image-based discourse on clay figurines that treated them as merely artistic representations, the meaning of which needs to be deciphered through various iconological methods, has been severely critiqued and challenged in the past decade. This discourse, however, has largely shaped the way that figurines are depicted in archaeological iterations and publications, and it is this corpus of images that has in turn shaped further thinking and discussion on figurines, especially since very few people are able to handle the original, three-dimensional, physical objects. Building on the changing intellectual climate in figurine studies, we propose here a framework that treats figurines as multi-sensorial, affective and dynamic objects, acting within distinctive, relational fields of sensoriality. Furthermore, we situate a range of digital, computational methods within this framework in an attempt to deprive them of their latent Cartesianism and mentalism, and we demonstrate how we have applied them to the study of Neolithic figurines from the site of Koutroulou Magoula in Greece. We argue that such methodologies, situated within an experiential framework, not only provide new means of understanding, interpretation and dissemination, but, most importantly, enable researchers and the public to explore the sensorial affordances and affective potential of things, in the past as well as in the present.

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The Neolithic of Southeast Europe: Recent Trends

Chapman¹,

Souvatzi²

2020

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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The prehistory of the Aegean, Balkans, and Carpathian Basin has changed dramatically in the last two decades. This review covers five aspects of these changes: ( a) the development of theoretical approaches, in which diversification from cultural archaeology has seen the spread of processual, postprocessual and later approaches; ( b) the acquisition of data, with the key major development being the proliferation of large-scale infrastructure projects; ( c) the synthesis of data, the most significant challenge being to make sense of the massive increase in paleo-environmental research, materials science, regional surveys, and site monographs; ( d ) thematic questions, whose very diversity underscores the discipline's growth in these regions; and ( e) emergent trends, such as the creation of new forms of synthesis at the local, regional, and interregional scales, the theorizing and differentiation of new ways of relating people, places, plants, and animals and objects, and continuing diversification in the application of scientific techniques. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 49 is October 21, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Koutroulou Magoula in Phthiotida, Central Greece:

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Current approaches to the Neolithic of Thessaly

Current approaches to the Neolithic of Thessaly

Digital Sensoriality: The Neolithic Figurines from Koutroulou Magoula, Greece

The Neolithic of Southeast Europe: Recent Trends

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