Landscape and Early Farming Settlement Dynamics in Central Greece
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Current hyperintensive surface survey in the Tanagra district of Boeotia, central Greece (J. L.Bintliff et al., 2002), together with a recent reanalysis of survey results from the Thespiae dis-trict (J. L. Bintliff et al., 1999), have led to a radical rethinking of how and where early farm-ers exploited the Greek landscape between earliest Neolithic and Early Bronze Age times.This new work is described, and its significance for the wider debates about the Greek land-scape in this period is further discussed, to demonstrate that alongside widely spaced villagesin earlier Neolithic times there were also small, short-lived farms; both were associated withwetland hand cultivation. In later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age times, these locationsremained, but vestigial traces discovered by hyperintensive survey methods have identified anexplosion of small, short-lived, and horizontally migrating farms across the newly clearedinterfluve zones. A largely lost alluvial terrace provides a major resource for the earlier, wet-land farming foci.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Geoarchaeology |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 7 |
Pages (from-to) | 665-674 |
ISSN | 0883-6353 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |
- Faculty of Humanities - Aegean Archaeology, Boeotia, Neolithic, Geoarcheology, Landscape Archaeology, settlement history, Tanagra
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