The Cambridge/Bradford Boeotian Expedition: the First Four Years

Bintliff, John; Snodgrass, A. M.

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“…At the same time, historical sources describe the pressure for arable land in Classical Thebes, where the city appears over-populated (Bintliff & Snodgrass 1985). It is therefore a reasonable assumption that the city would have tried to cover the basic needs for food through intensification of agriculture, which can also be attained with the use of manure.…”

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“…Foard 1978;Rowley-Cowny 1981;Hayfield 1987). It is established that Thebans of the fourth century lived under maximum land capacity (Bintliff & Snodgrass 1985), and needed to intensify production. Therefore, a significant enrichment in δ 15 N of animals and humans in any given period, without apparent changes in the diet, may well represent the effect of consumption of cereals that grew on manured soils.…”

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Aristophanes and stable isotopes: a taste for freshwater fish in Classical Thebes (Greece)?

Vika

Aravantinos²,

Richards

2009

Antiquity

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Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0003598X00099361 How to cite this article: E. Vika, V. Aravantinos and M.P. Richards (2009). Aristophanes and stable isotopes: a taste for freshwater sh in Stable isotopes in skeletons indicate changes in diet, and a sample of humans from Classical Thebes showed an unexpected increase in nitrogen values -usually associated with increased access to protein. But from what and how? After considering the possible sources of meat, milk and manure, the authors highlight the contribution of freshwater fish, and find support in Aristophanes -where the citizens are heard clamouring for the eels of Lake Kopais.

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Aristophanes and stable isotopes: a taste for freshwater fish in Classical Thebes (Greece)?

Vika

Aravantinos²,

Richards

2009

Antiquity

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“…This is especially true in the Mediterranean area where preservation conditions are excellent, a multitude of very well‐built classical cities exist, and where many urban centers show settlement discontinuity in Medieval or modern times. Spurred by seminal projects such as the study of Boeotian towns by Bintliff and Snodgrass (, ), as well as by the refinement of geophysical techniques and aerial photography that could be used for the fine‐grained analysis required to bring out details of urban layout (Barber, ; Bourgeois & Meganck, ; Christie, ; Doneus, ; Guaitoli, ; Schmiedt & Castagnoli, ; Scollar, Tabbagh, Hesse, & Herzog, ; Vermeulen, Burgers, Keay, & Corsi, ), a new age of field‐based urban studies emerged. Partly helped by the power of geographic information system (GIS) technology and other techniques currently used in the geosciences, this evolution created, since the turn of the millennium, a boom in the noninvasive survey of urban sites, especially of the classical Greek and Roman periods (Christie, ; Johnson & Millett, ; Vermeulen et al., ).…”

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Geoarchaeological study of abandoned Roman urban and suburban contexts from central Adriatic Italy

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Over the past 15 years the Potenza Valley Survey project investigated Iron Age to Medieval settlement dynamics in the Central Adriatic Potenza Valley. Part of this research focuses on the Roman abandoned towns of Potentia and Trea by performing an integrated geoarchaeological study of their townscape. This largely noninvasive research consists of remote sensing analysis, geophysical surveys (magnetometry, electrical resistivity, and ground-penetrating radar), and geomorphological fieldwork such as microtopographic measurements and hand augering. The chosen techniques depend on the nature of each town and are integrated with more traditionally achieved research data. This paper presents the main interdisciplinary results of work on these two Roman towns and highlights the importance of obtaining complementary data and performing hand augering as a stratigraphic control of the remote sensing and geophysical results. Insights into the character and layout of the cities, the structural influence on the surrounding area, and the human-environment interactions and dynamics through time of both Roman cities could be achieved. Moreover, the results offer guidelines for conservation strategies of these abandoned towns and their suburbium, which are necessary to protect them from present-day threats such as agriculture and tourism. In this way the paper offers an insight in the tremendous potential of well-integrated geoarchaeological investigations of partly or fully abandoned urban contexts in the Mediterranean area and beyond.

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“…In 2017 the British School at Athens returned to Boeotia, an area in which we had worked early in the 20th century (at Rhitsóna and Haliartos: e.g., Burrows andUre 1907-1908;Austin 1925Austin -1926 and in the late 1970s and 1980s (Cambridge Bradford Boeotia Archaeological and Geographical Expedition: e.g., Bintliff and Snodgrass 1985). This year we commenced the first season of a collaborative project led by Alexandra Charami (Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia) and Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) to explore the Mycenaean chamber-tomb cemetery at Prosilio (ID6170) on the slopes of Mount Akontion near Orchomenos.…”

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The work of the British School at Athens, 2017–2018

Bennet

2018

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This article, based on an oral presentation by the author at its Annual General Meeting in February 2018, summarizes the activities of the British School at Athens with a focus on the calendar year 2017. It describes – selectively and concisely – research by award holders, BSA-sponsored fieldwork in 2017 at six locations (Olynthos, Koutroulou Magoula, Prosilio, Kythera, Dhaskalio-Keros and Knossos), research and events associated with the Fitch Laboratory and the Knossos Research Centre, plus other activities of the BSA in Greece and the UK, including seminars, conferences and workshops.

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The Cambridge/Bradford Boeotian Expedition: the First Four Years

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Aristophanes and stable isotopes: a taste for freshwater fish in Classical Thebes (Greece)?

Aristophanes and stable isotopes: a taste for freshwater fish in Classical Thebes (Greece)?

Geoarchaeological study of abandoned Roman urban and suburban contexts from central Adriatic Italy

The work of the British School at Athens, 2017–2018

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