The Laconia Rural Sites Project (BSA Supplementary Volume) - Hardcover

Cavanagh, William; Mee, C.; James, Peter; Cavanagh, W. G.

 
9780904887471: The Laconia Rural Sites Project (BSA Supplementary Volume)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0904887472 ISBN 13: 9780904887471
Publisher: British School at Athens, 2004

Synopsis

Over the past 30 years many hundreds of small rural sites have been identified in Greece (and throughout the Mediterranean) through intensive field survey. Their exact nature and function is still a matter of hot contention. This volume reviews the current theories on the variety and character of rural sites, land tenure and residence in Prehistoric, Classical, Roman and Byzantine Greece. The innovative methodology adopted for this project is outlined against the background of intensive site survey, the impact of post-depositional effects, geophysical prospection in the Mediterranean and archaeological soils analysis. The core of the volume is an analysis of 20 sites, which range in date from the Early Bronze Age to Byzantine periods, selected from the >400 located by the Laconia Survey (Supplementary Volume 26-27). The concluding section then reviews the advantages and disadvantages of the methodology applied and draws broader conclusions about rural settlement, land use and site function from the prehistoric period onwards.

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Review

...a volume as innovative in its (re)iterative research and methodology as it is novel in its documentation of select rural sites [...] the work justly deserves the consideration of economic historians, landscape/regional specialists, and archaeologists at large. (Christopher L. Witmore The Medieval Review)

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Publisher
British School at Athens
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0904887472
ISBN 13 
9780904887471
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
366