The Kingdom of Chelmis: Architecture, Material Culture, and the Modern Landscape of the Western Argolid

Erny, Grace; Caraher, William

doi:10.1080/00934690.2019.1704990

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“…Recent studies of borders and borderlands, such as in the Mazi Plain on the borders of Attica and Boeotia, have overturned assumptions concerning the attribution of fortifications to one polity or another and highlighted shifting levels of engagement between larger polities and rural communities (Knodell et al 2017b;Fachard et al 2020). While regional survey began mainly with prehistorians leading the way (even if in classical contexts), many projects are now also concerned with the more recent past, employing approaches derived from documentary archaeology (especially Venetian and Ottoman tax documents and land records) and ethnography (e.g., Davis 1991;Erny and Caraher 2020;Galaty et al 2013).…”

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Survey Archaeology in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History

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Leppard

et al. 2022

J Archaeol Res

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In this paper we describe the development and state of archaeological surface survey in the Mediterranean. We focus especially on surface survey as a means of documenting long-term settlement patterns at various scales, as an approach to the archaeology of regions, and as a pathway to the interpretation of past landscapes. Over the last decades, literature on Mediterranean survey has increasingly emphasized a distinct set of practices, viewed both favorably and critically by regional archaeologists in the Mediterranean and elsewhere. We show that Mediterranean survey in fact comprises several discrete regional traditions. In general, these traditions have much to offer to wider dialogues in world archaeology, particularly concerning sampling and research design, the interpretation of surface assemblages, and the integration of complex, multidisciplinary datasets. More specifically, survey investigations of Mediterranean landscapes provide comparative data and potential research strategies of relevance to many issues of global significance, including human ecology, demography, urban-rural dynamics, and various types of polity formation, colonialism, and imperialism.

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