Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus: Report on the 2001 Season

Geoarchaeological approaches to the environmental history of Cyprus: explication and critical evaluation

“…Further downstream, Given et al (2002) and Wells (2001) indicate the presence of multiple fills, of which their ''flood chutes and bars'' recall the braidplain features of the Peristerona River (see Section 4.3.). In the upper valley we could not confirm flood deposits attributed to a 17th or 18th century abandonment of terracing.…”

“…3). A discontinuous alluvium is found at 3.5 m above the channel floor around Km 5.6 (near the abandoned settlement studied by Given et al, 2002); it consists of stony loam, with localized concentrations of rough rock derived from slopes (attributed to Unit 1 of Table 2). The surface soil is brown to light yellowish brown in color, representing a Typic Haploxerept.…”

Aegean Prehistory as World Archaeology: Recent Trends in the Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece

“…Archaeologists in the Aegean are indeed obsessed with highresolution methods of siteless survey; with few other options, they have focused increasingly on refining the data extracted from the surface alone. Fine-scale geomorphological analysis in tandem with intensive survey has become a defining characteristic of this approach (Francovich et al 2000;Given et al 2002;Tartaron et al 2006a, pp. 466-470).…”

“…Some surveys have begun to attach a geomorphologist to each survey team for realtime interdisciplinary consultation (Given et al 2002;Tartaron et al 2006a, pp. 468-470).…”

Editorial

“…Barker et al 1998). Other landscape projects include work on Cyprus which employed the intensive surface collection techniques more commonly practised in the Aegean or Italy (Given et al 2002) than in the Levant, and a study of the Homs region of western Syria which used satellite imagery to identify features for ground investigation and to document the impact of present-day development on the archaeological record (Philip et al 2005). A related approach, but using aerial photography, has underpinned Kennedy's pioneering work on Graeco-Roman roads and settlement in Jordan (e.g.…”