The Hidden Landscape of Prehistoric Greece

Bintliff, John; Howard, Phil; Snodgrass, A. M.

doi:10.1558/jmea.v12i2.139

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“…Our radical view is that this is a hidden landscape where small prehistoric farms with coarseware survive in arable areas only as vestigial, tiny surface scatters, usually missed by field walkers owing to the low number, poor condition, and very weak recognizability of such pieces (Bintliff et al, 1999). For us, this site, and others like it, is a prehistoric farm.…”

Section: Thespiae Choramentioning

confidence: 97%

“…However, here we have adopted the powerful arguments used to explain very similar surface phenomena found in intensive survey in the Czech Republic (discussed in Bintliff, 2000a andBintliff et al, 1999), which focus on the poor survivability of prehistoric coarsewares in the plowsoil. If such sherds had been deposited into the plowsoil in prehistoric times, they would not have survived to today; rather, their appearance now must be consequent on plowing and other surface interference disturbing buried prehistoric deposits (domestic, funerary, ritual contexts) during more recent times.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Current hyperintensive surface survey in the Tanagra district of Boeotia, central Greece (J. L. Bintliff et al, 2002), together with a recent reanalysis of survey results from the Thespiae district (J. L. Bintliff et al, 1999), have led to a radical rethinking of how and where early farmers exploited the Greek landscape between earliest Neolithic and Early Bronze Age times. This new work is described, and its significance for the wider debates about the Greek landscape in this period is further discussed, to demonstrate that alongside widely spaced villages in earlier Neolithic times there were also small, short-lived farms; both were associated with wetland hand cultivation.

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Landscape and early farming settlement dynamics in central Greece

Bintliff

Farinetti

Sarri³

et al. 2006

Geoarchaeology

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Current hyperintensive surface survey in the Tanagra district of Boeotia, central Greece (J. L. Bintliff et al., 2002), together with a recent reanalysis of survey results from the Thespiae district (J. L. Bintliff et al., 1999), have led to a radical rethinking of how and where early farmers exploited the Greek landscape between earliest Neolithic and Early Bronze Age times. This new work is described, and its significance for the wider debates about the Greek landscape in this period is further discussed, to demonstrate that alongside widely spaced villages in earlier Neolithic times there were also small, short-lived farms; both were associated with wetland hand cultivation. In later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age times, these locations remained, but vestigial traces discovered by hyperintensive survey methods have identified an explosion of small, short-lived, and horizontally migrating farms across the newly cleared interfluve zones. A largely lost alluvial terrace provides a major resource for the earlier, wetland farming foci.

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Landscape and early farming settlement dynamics in central Greece

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Sarri³

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“…Di Gennaro & Stoddart 1982) has led to the situation where new un-recognised early sites and unknown hidden prehistoric landscapes are emerging when more attention is directed towards low densities of fragile Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery (cf. Attema et al 2001;Bintliff et al 1999;Bintliff 2002). The progressive refinement of dating is seen as a future necessity (e.g.…”

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‘We Would Never Have Thought to Go There’ – The Changing Definitions of a Site in Central Italian Archaeology

Rajala

2006

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A ‘site’ is one of the key concepts in archaeology, and is not specific to central Italian archaeology. Archaeologists have tried to define what constitutes a site and how it can be measured. One definition of a site is ‘as places where significant traces of human activity are identified’ (Renfrew & Bahn 1994: 42). Essentially, a ‘site’ has to be distinguished from a ‘non-site’ and the boundary between the two has to be drawn (Carman 1999). These definitions made in the field are archaeological decisions, not observations (Dunnell and Dancey 1983). Our practice is a pragmatic act of constructing boundaries on the basis of the density of finds and/or features. The definition of a specific site is subject to evaluation of the archaeological criteria used to define it. However, it is clear that the concepts behind those criteria have changed over time. In central Italian archaeology, the scholars have moved from the topographical archaeology of the 19th century to the GIS-assisted landscape studies of the 21st century and their definitions have evolved similarly. Central Italy is relevant as an example since Italian studies have contributed fundamentally to the developments in field archaeology

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“…Millett 1991). The second view, in essence that put forward by Bintliff et al (1999), suggests that a combination of relatively friable pottery, and the impact of millennia of post-depositional processes has resulted in a degree of attrition to early material that is considerably more pronounced than is the case of evidence indicative of later occupations.…”

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Settlement and Landscape Development in the Homs Region, Syria. Report on Work Undertaken during 2001–2003

Philip¹,

Abdulkarim

Newson³

et al. 2005

Levant

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The Hidden Landscape of Prehistoric Greece

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Cited by 107 publications

References 6 publications

Landscape and early farming settlement dynamics in central Greece

Landscape and early farming settlement dynamics in central Greece

‘We Would Never Have Thought to Go There’ – The Changing Definitions of a Site in Central Italian Archaeology

Settlement and Landscape Development in the Homs Region, Syria. Report on Work Undertaken during 2001–2003

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