The Tanagra Project: Investigations at an Ancient Boeotian City and in its Countryside (2000-2002)

Bintliff, John; Farinetti, Emeri; Sbonias, Kostas; Sarri, Kalliope; Stissi, V.; Poblome, Jeroen; Ceulemans, A; Craen, K De; Vionis, Athanasios K.; Mušič, Branko; Kramberger, Dusan; Slapšak, Božidar

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“…29 Vionis 2017 A model also earlier promoted by Guy Sanders from the excavations at Sparta (Sanders 1995). 31 Bintliff et al 2008. 32 Vionis 2017.…”

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Changes in Town and Country in Late Antiquity and into the Early Medieval Period in Greece and the Aegean Islands

Bintliff

2024

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The Greek Aegean in the Late Roman era (5th-mid-7th centuries AD) offers a degree of uniformity, developing further the novel urban and rural patterns that mark the previous Imperial centuries. Characteristically, small towns with fortifications and lavish Christian monuments are surrounded by commercial villa estates, while populations shrink drastically from the mid-6th century. In the 7th-8th centuries fundamental regional divergences appear. Most of mainland Greece is lost to the Eastern Roman (aka Early Byzantine) Empire based at Constantinople, the largest towns and coastal ports excepted, following waves of Slavic settlement. A second model is found on the Aegean Islands, where reduced populations largely survive Arab raids and alien settlement through settlement displacement and negotiation. A third model is represented by the large island of Crete, free from invasion until Arab conquest in the 9th century, ironically when a revived Eastern Roman (Middle Byzantine) Empire regains control of the mainland and remaining Aegean Islands. This paper will present the evidence from archaeology for these scenarios, varying in time and space.

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“…29 Vionis 2017 A model also earlier promoted by Guy Sanders from the excavations at Sparta (Sanders 1995). 31 Bintliff et al 2008. 32 Vionis 2017.…”

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Changes in Town and Country in Late Antiquity and into the Early Medieval Period in Greece and the Aegean Islands

Bintliff

2024

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“…Limited attention has been given to surface visibility, usually simply weighting artefact counts by the inverse of observed visibility (e.g. Whitelaw 1991;Whitelaw and Davis 1991;Bintliff 2004-05;Bintliff et al 2007; see also Cherry et al 1991;Terenato 2000), though various authors note that the relationship may not be linear, and visibility assessments by different collectors may themselves be variable. Here, the point is merely to illustrate the significance of surface visibility on the quantity and characteristics of material recovered at Knossos.…”

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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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“…Post-modern approaches including phenomenology, offer revealing insights into past societies indeed, but so do concepts such as the 'Chamber theory' (Lehmann 1939, Philippson andKirsten 1950-59), off-site archaeology and 'settlement area theory' (Neustupny 1986: in Kuna 2000, Neustupny 1991, Kuna 1991, but also the Annales framework. views that oppose the great emphasis given in phenomenology stress that settlement changes seem to relate more to geographic and social issues rather than emotional 'senses of place' (Bintliff 2000b); at the same time, Knapp and Ashmore (1999:8) are optimistic that 'while we may never know the precise content of stories told from ancient landscapes, we can increasingly infer some of the contours of their telling and the social impact that they had'.…”

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The Historiography of Landscape Research on Crete

Gkiasta¹

2008

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The Tanagra Project: Investigations at an Ancient Boeotian City and in its Countryside (2000-2002)

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Changes in Town and Country in Late Antiquity and into the Early Medieval Period in Greece and the Aegean Islands

Changes in Town and Country in Late Antiquity and into the Early Medieval Period in Greece and the Aegean Islands

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The Historiography of Landscape Research on Crete

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