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

Tankosić, Žarko; Laftsidis, Alexandros; Psoma, Aikaterini; Seifried, Rebecca M.; Garyfallopoulos, Apostolos

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“…The location at the southern end of the Euboean Gulf, with the important Mycenaean centers of Thorikos, Brauron, and Marathon on the opposite coast, makes this all the more puzzling. It is possible that Mycenaean Karystos simply has not been found but this seems unlikely since the region has been subject to numerous campaigns of intensive and extensive archaeological survey since the 1980s (Keller 1985;Tankosić and Chidiroglou 2010;Cullen et al 2013;Tankosić et al, forthcoming). Even if such a site exists but has not been found, it would need to be part of a wider regional system, of which we have no trace.…”

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Societies in Transition in Early Greece

Knodell¹

2021

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IllustrationsFIGURES 1. Nested (but often overlapping) scales of social and spatial units 20 2. Line graph and table of number of sites by period, by region, in central Greece 44 3. Comparative sizes of Mycenaean palaces 72 4. Some lesser-known tholoi of central Greece 87 5. LH IIIC pottery with seafaring, siege, and feasting scenes 130 6. Toumba building and cemetery at Lefkandi 163 7. Examples of Geometric pottery with early writing and figural scenes 221 MAPS xiv Preface and Acknowledgementsto the Mediterranean? How can archaeological analysis cross these scales? How do the trajectories of early Greek societies relate to those of other human groups (or not)? These questions are necessarily broad, and in this book I have aimed to address them in a way that will resonate with archaeologists interested in other parts of the world as well. With this in mind, I set out to write an archaeological history relevant to people working in a variety of disciplinary traditions-archaeologists and historians of ancient Greece, as well as anthropological archaeologists concerned with the broader archaeology of complex societies.The arguments in this book are built on the achievements of generations of previous scholars. I hope to do justice to their work in discussing it here, incorporating it into new analyses or visualizations, or reframing it in new interpretations. Even if I am in occasional disagreement with these scholars, I have tremendous respect for the efforts of fieldwork, interpretation, and publication that have allowed for the type of synthesis presented here. This book deals with a broad range of evidence and ideas, and it is inevitable that I have gotten some of it wrong. There are certainly sites, discoveries, or interpretations that I have overlooked, and the relevant dataset is ever evolving. Nevertheless, I hope to have provided some new insights concerning early Greece and the Mediterranean world, in ways that will be useful to other scholars as well.My interests in early Greece and the archaeology of complex societies were fos-

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Section: Euboea Between Two Worldsmentioning

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Societies in Transition in Early Greece

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2021

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“…We designed methods around the principles of recording precision, simplicity, and flexibility. To achieve this, we used a modified version of the recording system designed for the archaeological project at the Neolithic site of Paliambela in Pieria, northern Greece, conducted by the Aristotle Univer- 19 Due to the methodological limitations of NASK (Tankosić et al 2021), we cannot provide surface artefact densities for Gourimadi. The observation here is based on personal experience with the Gourimadi survey and subsequent visits that preceded the start of the excavation.…”

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Gourimadi Archaeological Project. The results from the first excavation season

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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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“…The Prehistoric Stones of Greece online database inventories 163 survey projects (Elefanti et al 2015). Certain regions, such as Boeotia, southern Euboea, and eastern Crete, have now seen multiple generations of projects and widespread 29 intensive coverage (Bintliff et al 2007;Spencer and Bevan 2018;Tankosić et al 2021).…”

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Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History

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In this paper we describe the development and state of archaeological surface survey in the Mediterranean. We focus especially on surface survey as a means of documenting long-term settlement patterns at various scales, as an approach to the archaeology of regions, and as a pathway to the interpretation of past landscapes. Over the last decades, literature on Mediterranean survey has increasingly emphasized a distinct set of practices, viewed both favorably and critically by regional archaeologists in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. We show that Mediterranean survey in fact comprises several discrete regional traditions. In general, these traditions have much to offer to wider dialogues in world archaeology, particularly concerning sampling and research design, the interpretation of surface assemblages, and the integration of complex, multidisciplinary datasets. More specifically, survey investigations of Mediterranean landscapes provide comparative data and potential research strategies of relevance to many issues of global significance, including human ecology, demography, urban-rural dynamics, and various types of polity formation, colonialism, and imperialism.

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

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Societies in Transition in Early Greece

Societies in Transition in Early Greece

Gourimadi Archaeological Project. The results from the first excavation season

Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History

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