The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project a Preliminary Report

Wright, James C.; Cherry, John F.; Davis, Jack L.; Mantzourani, Eleni; Sutton, Susan Buck; Sutton, Robert F.

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“…The goals of NVAP were to document human activity and habitation in the Nemea Valley and to study them in their ecological, economic, social, and historical contexts (Wright et al 1990). The survey employed a diachronic perspective and sophisticated methodologies that recorded "sites," as well as "off-site" material.…”

Section: Nemea Valley: the Medieval Archaeological Evidencementioning

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Landscape Archaeology and the Medieval Countryside: Settlement and Abandonment in the Nemea Region

Athanassopoulos

2010

Int J Histor Archaeol

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This paper examines the processes of settlement and abandonment of the medieval countryside as revealed by archaeological surveys undertaken in southern Greece. The Nemea region, the focus of an intensive archaeological survey, serves as a case study. Early archaeological surveys approached this time period primarily from a historical point of view. Political history provided the textual frame while the archaeological data were expected to "fill in" the gaps of the historical record. In contrast, in the last twenty-five years the second generation of surveys has taken an active interest in the archaeological documentation of the medieval countryside. The settlement trends observed in Nemea are viewed as manifestations of a variety of political, social, and economic processes.

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Section: Nemea Valley: the Medieval Archaeological Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

Landscape Archaeology and the Medieval Countryside: Settlement and Abandonment in the Nemea Region

Athanassopoulos

2010

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…Some survey archaeologists have managed to walk a middle road, practicing full-coverage, distributional landscape archaeology but not entirely abandoning the site concept (e.g., Chapman et al, 1996;Cherry et al, 1991;Davis, 1998;Davis et al, 1997;Gaffney and Tingle, 1989;Jameson et al, 1994;Korkuti et al, 1998;Wells, 1990;Wright et al, 1990). GIS, often linked to high-end GPS, has greatly facilitated this approach, allowing regional-scale artifact densities to be mapped and analyzed for statistically meaningful break points and fall-off patterns.…”

Section: European Survey Archaeology: Near-or Far-sighted?mentioning

confidence: 99%

European Regional Studies: A Coming of Age?

Galaty

2005

J Archaeol Res

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This article reviews current developments in European regional studies. A brief history of settlement archaeology as practiced in Europe is followed by a discussion of new approaches to regional analysis and surface survey. I argue that recent, steady investments in the technology, methods, and theory of regional archaeological analysis and surface survey have stimulated advances in the study of settlement patterns and settlement pattern change through time in many parts of Europe. When innovative technologies (e.g., remote sensing, GPS, GIS), methods (e.g., geoarchaeology, "siteless" survey), and new theoretical frameworks (both processual and postprocessual) have been combined, breakthroughs in our understanding of European settlement have resulted. In the last half of the article, I describe some of these breakthroughs in a broad discussion of European settlement history, beginning with the earliest prehistory of Europe through the Middle Ages. Shifts in perspective are particularly apparent for phases of transition: from the Middle to Upper Paleolithic, Paleolithic to Mesolithic to Neolithic, and with the rise and expansion of states.

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“…A single small urban site, Phlius, subjected to intensive survey, reached its maximum extent and most intense use in Classical to Hellenistic times (the published interpretation that peak use is Early Roman cannot be supported on the published data of period-specific finds). Sources: Wright et al (1990) (Chapman and Shiel 1988); Dalmatia Hvar-Starigrad Survey (Bintliff, Gaffhey, Kirigin, Slapsak, unpubl. ); Epiros Thesprotia (Dakaris 1971b); Aetolia Strouza Survey (Bommeljé and Doorn 1984); South Macedonia Grevena Survey (French 1990(French -1991; Eastern Macedonia Langadas Survey (Kotsakis 1989(Kotsakis , 1990 Figure 4.…”

Section: The Regions and The Surveys Of Greece And The Eastern Adriaticmentioning

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“…Certainly most authorities have suggested an Attic population of around 180,000 by 480 B.C., well above Garnsey's recent estimates (Garnsey 1988: 104) of 120,000-150,000 for Attica's carrying capacity. Spatial analysis and intensive survey in the Attic countryside (Lohmann 1993;Bintliff 1994) suggest that regional Mec et al 1991); Nemca Valley Survey (Wright et al 1990;Alcock 1993 overpopulation was created by exaggerated urban growth in Athens and its immediate hinterland. In the outer country districts of Attica the climax of population and settlement intensity peaks in the 4th century B.C.…”

Section: Phase 1: Late Geometric To Archaic (8th To End Of 6th Centurmentioning

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Regional Survey, Demography, and the Rise of Complex Societies in the Ancient Aegean: Core-Periphery, Neo-Malthusian, and Other Interpretive Models

Bintliff¹

1997

Journal of Field Archaeology

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The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project a Preliminary Report

Cited by 156 publications

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Landscape Archaeology and the Medieval Countryside: Settlement and Abandonment in the Nemea Region

Landscape Archaeology and the Medieval Countryside: Settlement and Abandonment in the Nemea Region

European Regional Studies: A Coming of Age?

Regional Survey, Demography, and the Rise of Complex Societies in the Ancient Aegean: Core-Periphery, Neo-Malthusian, and Other Interpretive Models

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