The Ayios Vasileios Survey Project (Laconia, Greece): questions, aims and methods

Voutsaki, Sofia; Wiersma, Corien; Neef, Wieke de; Vasilogamvrou, Adamantia

doi:10.32028/jga.v4i.475

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“…With respect to site size in LH III, we seem to see local and perhaps regional differences. Ayios Vasileios and Pylos 98 in the southern Peloponnese seem to remain below 20ha (and this may 89 This point is discussed more extensively in Voutsaki et al 2019. 90 E.g.…”

Section: Bronze Agementioning

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The site of Ayios Vasileios in Laconia from the prehistoric to the early modern period. Results of the pedestrian field survey

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The Ayios Vasileios Survey Project is part of the Ayios Vasileios Excavations Project. The broader project includes the excavations of the Mycenaean palace and the early Mycenaean North Cemetery. The survey project consists of a pedestrian survey and a geophysical exploration of the area, and is accompanied by an ethnographic survey. In this article we discuss the results of the pedestrian survey and offer a reconstruction of the habitation history of the site. In the following discussion, we first introduce the site of Ayios Vasileios and sketch a brief outline of the research carried out at the site thus far and its habitation history. Secondly, we present the pedestrian survey methodology. This is followed by an extensive discussion of the distribution and date of the collected surface material for the main periods attested at the site: the Bronze Age, the Classical-Hellenistic, the Roman, and the Medieval and Early Modern. The spatial and temporal patterns are contextualised and compared with data generated by the excavation and geophysical research already published. The integration of these different data allows us to provide a more detailed reconstruction of the extent and spatial development of the site through time.

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Section: Bronze Agementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Vasilogamvrou 2010: 67-68, here a date of 7th-12th century AD is mentioned. 42 For an extensive discussion of our methodology, see Voutsaki et al 2019. 43 E.g.…”

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The site of Ayios Vasileios in Laconia from the prehistoric to the early modern period. Results of the pedestrian field survey

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IJzendoorn

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A palace under the olive trees. Investigating the spatial organization of the Mycenaean palatial center at Ayios Vasileios (Laconia, Greece) through large-scale magnetic gradiometry

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The results of a large-scale magnetometry survey are used to investigate two key aspects of the spatial organization of the Mycenaean palatial settlement at Ayios Vasileios (Laconia, Greece): the extent of the site and the existence, or possibly even zoning of distinct functional areas. These include the palatial core, funerary zones, industrial areas, and infrastructure. The unique situation at Ayios Vasileios, which remained relatively undisturbed after its abandonment, provides the possibility to explore the potential, limitations, and challenges of spatial research based on geophysical data of a prehistoric urban context. We do so by engaging different sources of information: geophysical contrasts mapped by our own and previous surveys, information from the excavations of the palatial core and the adjacent North Cemetery, preliminary observations on surface materials, and wider scholarship on Mycenaean palatial settlement. This dialogue between the disciplines enables us to problematize the interpretation of non-invasive geophysical prospection data and to check our implicit assumptions. Taking into account the different resolutions of these interdisciplinary sources, we formulate hypotheses about the layout and organization of the site which we hope to substantiate in the future by comparing against the surface data and the progress of the excavation.

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The Ayios Vasileios Survey Project (Laconia, Greece): questions, aims and methods

Cited by 2 publications

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The site of Ayios Vasileios in Laconia from the prehistoric to the early modern period. Results of the pedestrian field survey

The site of Ayios Vasileios in Laconia from the prehistoric to the early modern period. Results of the pedestrian field survey

A palace under the olive trees. Investigating the spatial organization of the Mycenaean palatial center at Ayios Vasileios (Laconia, Greece) through large-scale magnetic gradiometry

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