Smith, D.M. (2016) Archaeology in Greece. Newsround. Archaeological Reports 62, 23-43 (original) (raw)

A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean

Wiley eBooks, 2019

The Greek Landscape Setting Although we are accustomed to envisage Greece from the Mediterranean climate zone around its long coastlines and on the Aegean islands, the landscape is far more varied if we travel both up into the mountains of the south and into the more temperate climates of the north. It remains still true, as Colin Renfrew illustrated in his still invaluable synthesis of later Greek prehistory (1972), that the high cultures of the Early Bronze Age (EBA), Minoan-Mycenaean civilization and the Geometric (G) to high Classical cultures of Greece have their essential distributional focus in the south and the lowlands, but inversely, till recently, archaeological research was far less interested in the development of societies in upland Greece and in the northern provinces. Even today we are mostly best informed about Macedonia, due to the innovative regional work of university and state archaeologists in that region (cf. Andreou, Fotiadis, and Kotsakis 1996), and need to know much more about Thrace and northwest Greece. We already are aware that Neolithic Greece in contrast is most flourishing in the northern plains, while from late Classical times into the Ottoman era northern Greece has also been as significant for urbanism and rural settlement as the south. Various explanations have been proposed for the apparent precocity of the lowland south in the Bronze Age (BA) to high Classical eras:

AEGIS Essays in Mediterranean Archaeology Presented to Matti Egon by the scholars of the Greek Archaeological Committee UK

ISBN 978 1 78491 200 0 ISBN 978 1 78491 201 7 (e-Pdf) The Founder of GACUK Matti Egon with the 'unusual bouquet' offered by the scholars. i Contents Foreword �� v The value of digital recordings and reconstructions for the understanding of three-dimensional archaeological features �� 1 Constantinos Papadopoulos The contribution of systematic zooarchaeological analysis in understanding the complexity of prehistoric societies: The example of late Neolithic Toumba Kremastis-Koiladas in northern Greece �� 17 Vasiliki Tzevelekidi The Heraion of Samos under the microscope: A preliminary technological and provenance assessment of the Early Bronze Age II late to III (c. 2500-2000 BC) pottery �� 25 Sergios Menelaou Time past and time present: the emergence of the Minoan palaces as a transformation of temporality �� 35 Giorgos Vavouranakis Palaepaphos during the Late Bronze Age: characterizing the urban landscape of a late Cypriot polity �� 45 Artemis Georgiou 'What would the world be to us if the children were no more?': the archaeology of children and death in LH IIIC Greece �� 57 Chrysanthi Gallou-Minopetrou The Late Helladic IIIC period in coastal Thessaly �� 69 Eleni Karouzou The Bronze Age on Karpathos and Kythera �� 85 Mercourios Georgiadis East Phokis revisited: its development in the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the light of the latest finds �� 93 Antonia Livieratou Early Iron Age Greece, ancient Pherae and the archaeometallurgy of copper �� 107 Vana Orfanou Representations of western Phoenician eschatology: funerary art, ritual and the belief in an after-life �� 117 Eleftheria Pappa Piraeus: beyond 'known unknowns' �� 131 Florentia Fragkopoulou The casting technique of the bronze Antikythera ephebe �� 137 Kosmas Dafas A brief, phenomenological reading of the Arkteia �� 147 Chryssanthi Papadopoulou Cylindrical altars and post-funerary ritual in the south-eastern Aegean during the Hellenistic period: 3rd to 2nd centuries BC �� 155 Vasiliki Brouma Lamps, symbolism and ritual in Hellenistic Greece �� 165 Nikolas Dimakis In search of the garden-peristyle in Hellenistic palaces: a reappraisal of the evidence �� 173 Maria Kopsacheili ii Damophon in Olympia: some remarks on his date �� 185 Eleni Poimenidou Entering the monastic cell in the Byzantine world: archaeology and texts �� 191 Giorgos Makris Discovering the Byzantine countryside: the evidence from archaeological field survey in the Peloponnese �� 201 Maria Papadaki On a Fāṭimid Kursī in the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai �� 211 George Manginis The discovery of ancient Cyprus: archaeological sponsorship from the 19th century to the present day �� 221 Anastasia Leriou Showcasing new Trojan wars: archaeological exhibitions and the politics of appropriation of ancient Troy �� 235 Antonis Kotsonas

Smith, D.M (2018c) Archaeology in Greece. Newsround. Archaeological Reports 63, 27-47.

‘Newsround’ offers a platform for the presentation of new data which do not appear within the specialist contributions of this year's Archaeological Reports, but which nevertheless warrant emphasis, either as a result of their particular characteristics or for the contribution they make to broader archaeological narratives. This section is not intended to be exhaustive; rather, it is designed to highlight recent discoveries in a way which complements digital content made available through AGOnline/Chronique des fouilles en ligne. The very varied nature of this material has meant that, for the most part, it has proved preferable to organize this section chronologically, although dedicated sections are provided for the inclusion of regional histories, marine archaeology and archaeological survey

Greek archaeology: theoretical developments over the last 40 years

TMA40, 2008

"Classical archaeology has for a long time been considered a self-contained and conservative discipline.However, the discipline is undergoing a dramatic transformation, as practitioners adopt new interpretive approaches and innovative methods of analysis, inspired by developments in the neighbouring fields of prehistoric archaeology and ancient history. These changes in practice and orientation do not really constitute a unified phenomenon. Rather, different academic traditions are developing, diverging approaches are adopted, and even competing definitions of classical (or Mediterranean?) archaeology are used alongside each other. Archaeology has not only changed; it has also become a diversified, growing and vibrant field. This paper will attempt to outline some of the theoretical and methodological changes that have taken place in classical archaeology in the last forty years or so. Although the emphasis will be on Greek archaeology, developments in all areas of the Mediterranean and examples from different periods will be brought into the discussion. "

Smith, D.M. (2016) Archaeology in Greece. Newsround. Archaeological Reports 62, 23-43 (original) (raw)

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