The Classical Farmstead Revisited. Activity Differentiation based on a Ceramic Use-Typology

Winther-Jacobsen, Kristina

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“…In the Classical–Hellenistic time frame, much of the cultivated land in Greece, and particularly in the north-eastern Peloponnese, belonged to farms established as part of specific polis -territories. While inequalities in the size of landholdings certainly existed, archaeological survey highlights a significant presence of sites interpreted as small, family farms aimed at both subsistence and limited cash-cropping (for a general discussion on the nature of family farms in Greek survey assemblages, see Winther-Jacobsen 2010: 269–73; Bintliff 2012: 277–81). The growth of such citizen groups would eventually have necessitated the expansion into high-gradient areas due to the limited availability of flatter land in the north-eastern Peloponnese.…”

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Climate variability and landscape dynamics in the Late Hellenistic and Roman north-eastern Peloponnese

Bonnier

Finné

2020

Antiquity

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Climate variability and landscape dynamics in the Late Hellenistic and Roman north-eastern Peloponnese

Bonnier

Finné

2020

Antiquity

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“…If those are indeed markers of greater wealth and particular priorities concerning privacy and security, then these other houses either encoded similar ideas in less permanent means, or did not have the interest or ability to encode those priorities in the architecture. These may then be smaller or less well-off farmers, although they are unlikely to be poor (Pettegrew, 2001;Winther-Jacobsen, 2010). Bagnall and Frier (1994, p. 67-8) calculate an average family size of slightly less than five without including any slaves or non-kin members.…”

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More Real Than Ideal: Household and Community Diversity at Metapontum, South Italy

Cabaniss

2019

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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Empirical studies of ancient cities must break down communities into their component parts, but frequently encounter difficulty with the scarcity of excavated domestic structures (e.g., Kramer, 1982, p. 673). I introduce to the archaeological literature the entropy estimating statistical bootstrap (EESB), a tool developed in information theory and computational social science by DeDeo et al. (2013) which provides a way to assess how representative a small dataset is of a parent population, categorized according to some useful typology. This method can be used to decide when small datasets can add further detail to our quantitative studies of archaeological settlements or when they need to be rejected as too small. I then illustrate its uses within the context of urban demography by examining the distribution of house forms to calculate household characteristics specific to Metapontum, an ancient Greek city. Future applications will include building larger urban datasets that are empirically grounded in the specific evidence for each community, facilitating the work of research programs such as urban scaling.

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“…This shift recognises that the data collected in the 1970s-80s from sites was so limited, it is usually difficult to do more than put dots on a map where a few sherds of a given date were recovered. Limited artefact recovery severely constrained the chronological and functional interpretation of sites, and low resolution collection rarely allowed discrimination of changes in site size or function through time (Whitelaw 2000;Bintliff et al 2007;Winther-Jacobsen 2010).…”

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2012

Archaeological Survey and the City

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Why survey cities? Urbanised societies have been characteristic of most of the Mediterranean region for the past two and a half millennia, longer to the east, with small numbers of urban centres in the Aegean from 2000 BC, and in the Levant from the later fourth millennium BC. There is healthy debate about the characteristics and roles of such centres, by no means uniform, but for most periods since their initial development or introduction in each local region, densely occupied communities with populations in at least the thousands have been the principal focal nodes within the landscape. They usually constitute the most complex and differentiated communities: socially, economically and politically. They are where significant proportions of the regional population resided, where the most far-reaching social, economic and political decisions were made, and where history was written, in the literal and figurative senses. Archaeologically, they have long been the principal focus of research, as Classical scholarship, pursuing the antiquarian tradition, documented sites and monuments mentioned in surviving written records. Broadening the questions, and the types of investigations needed to address them, has been a slow process; this can be tracked by perusing annual summaries of regional research over the past century. Until recently, uncovering yet another Greek temple or Roman basilica seems to have needed no justification; their value for understanding the past was assumed to be obvious. A major departure in the orientation of Mediterranean fieldwork emerged from the 1970s, with the wide proliferation and rapid methodological development of intensive regional field survey. This moved away from the high-profile remains, addressed more explicit questions, and with its almost invariably diachronic data, encouraged explicitly broad and comparative perspectives. The focus for such surveys, throughout the Mediterranean, has overwhelmingly been the rural landscape. In many cases, this was a reaction against the urban, monumental, and largely descriptive concentration of previous fieldwork. But it was also pragmatic, with small, relatively inexpensive surveys providing fieldwork opportunities for the rapidly expanding numbers of academic archaeologists wanting to work within the Mediterranean.

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The Classical Farmstead Revisited. Activity Differentiation based on a Ceramic Use-Typology

Cited by 8 publications

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Climate variability and landscape dynamics in the Late Hellenistic and Roman north-eastern Peloponnese

Climate variability and landscape dynamics in the Late Hellenistic and Roman north-eastern Peloponnese

More Real Than Ideal: Household and Community Diversity at Metapontum, South Italy

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