Thessaly (Archaic to Roman)

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News on Thessalian museums The Archaeological Museum of Karditsa The Archaeological Museum of Karditsa (Fig. 111), in the centre of the modern town, was opened to the public on 18 May 2010. The building, completed in 2001, contains the main exhibition rooms, a fully equipped conservation department (Fig. 112), a library, a room for educational programmes, two secure storerooms, a guestroom and ancilliary areas. The permanent exhibition displays finds from western Thessaly dating from the Palaeolithic period to Late Antiquity in chronological sequence, while at the same time focusing on major themes that characterize each era/culture. 111. The Archaeological Museum of Karditsa. © Ministry of Culture and Tourism: 34 th EPCA (L. Hatziangelakis). 112. The Archaeological Museum of Karditsa: conservation rooms. © Ministry of Culture and Tourism: 34 th EPCA (L. Hatziangelakis). 113. The Archaeological Museum of Karditsa: Palaeolithic spearhead from Lake Plastiras. © Ministry of Culture and Tourism: 34 th EPCA (L. Hatziangelakis). 114. The Archaeological Museum of Karditsa: display/reconstruction of a Neolithic Magoula. © Ministry of Culture and Tourism: 34 th EPCA (L. Hatziangelakis).

Kastro Palaia settlement, Volos, Greece: a diachronical technological approach to bronze metalwork

“…A five-year inter-disciplinary project was initiated in 2009, aiming at the study, re-evaluation and publication of the archaeological evidence from the excavations of D. R. Theocharis in 1956-1961(Stamatopoulou 2011. It has become apparent that during the Late Bronze Age Kastro Palaia constituted the northernmost administrative and commercial centre of the Mycenaean world, with an archive of Linear B clay tablets and palatial-type architecture with plastered walls and floors, and timber frame walls (Skafida et al 2015).…”

Biomineralisation and biogeochemical mobility of chemical elements

“…The site is on the artificial hill of Agioi Theodoroi, a hill of ~11.50 m height, covering an area of ~12.000 m 2 . The hill was formed through continuous habitation since prehistoric times (Batziou-Efstathiou 2003;Deilaki 1974;Skafida 2012a;Stamatopoulou 2011), and the remnants of a Bronze Age settlement (3000 -1100 BC) are evident today (Theocharis 1957(Theocharis , 1961. It is believed that this site was an ancient Mycynaean Iolkos (Tsountas 1900), a city that has been mentioned, among other written sources, in Homer's Iliad (B 712) (Adrymi-Sismani 2007).…”