Filling gaps in Aegean deep histories? Evaluating quartz concentrations from Koupharika-Krotiria on Kythera, Greece

Gregory, Timothy E.; Kardulias, P. Nick; Paspalas, Stavros A.; Trimmis, Konstantinos P.; Tzortzopoulou, Lita

doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.5

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“…Afterwards, the cave area is separated into discovery units (DUs) with boundaries that follow the natural formation of the cave. DUs (Gregory et al 2019) do not have predetermined dimensions, nor do they follow a preestablished grid. Their defining borders usually follow landscape features and modern field boundaries.…”

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Recording Santorini’s subterranean landscapes: A noninvasive approach to the investigation of cave use strategies in insular environments

Mavridis

Trimmis

2020

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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This paper investigates cave use strategies in insular environments, focusing on a case study from Santorini (Thera) island in Greece. The paper has a two-fold aim to propose and test a methodological framework for noninvasive archaeological evaluation of cave sites and to explore the ways that people, not only on Santorini, but also on similar small islands, have engaged with caves through time. Santorini is famous today as a holiday destination; however, a large part of the island's historic landscape has disappeared. This is due to the Bronze Age volcanic eruption that covered the majority of the island with a thick layer of tuff and pumice, as well as intensive building and agricultural activity in the second half of the twentieth century, all of which have dramatically transformed the island's natural environment. Today, our accounts of the island's prehistory come from the extraordinary preservation of the Akrotiri site, and considerable knowledge gained from other locations, about the role that the island played diachronically in the history of the Aegean. We are, however, still missing valuable information about the relationship between the island's inhabitants and their environment.

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Recording Santorini’s subterranean landscapes: A noninvasive approach to the investigation of cave use strategies in insular environments

Mavridis

Trimmis

2020

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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“…Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory (AAIA) reports on the 2019 field season of the Australian Paliochora Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS), which took place over four weeks, one of which was devoted to a sampling study of the agricultural terraces in the northern part of the island (ID8184; Gregory et al 2019;Tzortzopoulou-Gregory 2020). The main aims included establishing a chronology for these impressive humanconstructed landforms and determining the techniques of their construction, as well as testing a new methodology for the study of terraces in general.…”

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Newsround

Parikh¹

2020

Arch. Rep.

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Abstract‘Newsround’ offers a platform for new discoveries that do not appear within the specialist contributions of this year’s Archaeological Reports, but which nevertheless warrant emphasis, either as a result of their particular characteristics or for the contribution they make to broader archaeological narratives. This section is not intended to be exhaustive but rather an overview of archaeological research in Greece. It comprises largely preliminary reports (results of excavations that took place up to and including August 2020 where possible) that complement the digital content made available through Archaeology in Greece Online (https://chronique.efa.gr). Due to the diachronic nature of a number of the sites and for ease of reference, the material is organized geographically in the first instance and then chronologically (earliest to latest) within each section as far as possible.

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“…Roughly 30 km from north to south and some 280 km 2 in area, the island of Kythera is situated a little over an hour’s journey by ferry from the southern tip of the Peloponnese. Diachronic surveys (Gregory and Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, 2015) demonstrate a continuity of habitation on the island spanning over 4000 years through to the current day. The north of the island of Kythera, including the Karavas region, is distinguished from the south of the island by a range of characteristics originating from a combination of historical and geographic qualities.…”

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Two journeys: Forces that unite and disperse a community in the homeland

MacNeill

2017

Journal of Material Culture

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This article uses 'the journey'-the act of traversing a physical landscape-as a means of understanding the role landscape can play in preserving and reinforcing societies and their activities. It is based on material recorded over the course of three field seasons between 2006 and 2014 in the landscape of the Karavas basin in the northern part of Kythera, an island off the southern tip of the Greek Peloponnese. This material consists of spatial records of the location and the character of gardens, water channels, mills and other features in addition to accounts and reminiscences of inhabitants that relate to the former and current use of the landscape and their social, cultural and spiritual relationships to it. In this article, the journey is used to reconstruct a cultural landscape, a dynamic and selfsustaining amalgam of cultural, social and physical mechanisms and features. In this reconstruction, observed relationships between the inhabitants and their infrastructure form the basis for two interpretive approaches. The first considers the landscape and community as a unity, within which the character of the one is dependent on and reflects the character of the other. The second approaches the community as an interlocking and self-sustaining collection of cognitive and behavioural mechanisms. In this exploratory reconstruction, these two approaches are regarded as complementary, each compensating for conceptual and logical shortcomings of the other. The essential link between these two approaches is the landscape and its multiple meanings, in one sense a world defined, moulded and mediated by the task; in another, a structure of culturally mediated mechanisms. The author argues that both post-structural and structural interpretations generate valid and complementary understandings.

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Filling gaps in Aegean deep histories? Evaluating quartz concentrations from Koupharika-Krotiria on Kythera, Greece

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Cited by 6 publications

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Recording Santorini’s subterranean landscapes: A noninvasive approach to the investigation of cave use strategies in insular environments

Recording Santorini’s subterranean landscapes: A noninvasive approach to the investigation of cave use strategies in insular environments

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Two journeys: Forces that unite and disperse a community in the homeland

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