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Testing the hinterland : the work of the Boeotia Survey (1989-1991) in the southern approaches to the city of Thespiai

"The Boeotia Survey in Greece is widely recognized as a milestone in Mediterranean landscape archaeology in the sophistication and rigour of its methodologies, and in the scale of the 25-Year investigation. This first volume of the project's publication deals with the landscape that formed part of the territory of the ancient city of Thespiai. This landscape acted as the laboratory in which the project refined its methodology: the entire territory was traversed systematically by survey teams, and artefacts were collected not only from every archaeological site located but also as 'off-site' material indicative of land-use practices such as manuring. The methodology made possible the construction of detailed period and density maps of rural activity, throwing unprecedented light on the interaction of the city with its hinterland particularly in its period of maximum size between the fifth century B.C. and the sixth century A.D., as well as providing an exemplar for Mediterranean landscape archaeology more generally."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2007
McDonald Institute of Archeological Research, Cambridge, England, 2007
CD-ROMs
xviii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
9781902937373, 1902937376
144525077
Contributorsv
Figures
vi
Tablesxiv
Prefacexvii
Introduction to the Thespiai South/Leondari Southeast Area: a City and its Nearer Hinterland
1(8)
New Procedures and Objectives
9(4)
Principles of Analysis, i: Periodization
13(2)
Principles of Analysis, ii: Statistical Weighting
15(24)
The extensive and intensive data: the visibility factor
21(1)
District off-site values
21(2)
Interpretation of the district off-site trends
23(1)
Origin of the off-site material
23(3)
The residual analysis
26(11)
The sample fraction statistics
37(2)
Functional Analysis
39(4)
The Analysis of the Individual Sites
43(52)
Site Leondari Southeast (LSE 1)
43(3)
Site LSE 2
46(2)
Site LSE 3
48(3)
Site LSE
51(2)
Site LSE 5
53(2)
Site LSE 6
55(3)
Site LSE 7
58(2)
Site Thespiai South 1 (THS 1)
60(2)
Site THS 2
62(2)
Site THS 3
64(2)
Site THS 4
66(3)
Site THS 11
69(2)
Site THS 12
71(3)
Site THS 13
74(1)
Site THS 14
75(3)
Site THS 15
78(2)
Site THS 16
80(2)
Site THS 17
82(2)
Addendum to Chapter 6: The `Thespiai West Cemetery'
84(1)
The Palaeokarandas/Askris Potamos salient
84(11)
The Soils and Agricultural Potential of the Thespiai Area
95(16)
Robert Shiel
Andrew Stewart
Survey methodology
95(1)
Climate
95(2)
The landscape of the Pleistocene deposits
97(1)
The landscape of the alluvial plain
97(1)
Vegetation
98(1)
The soils of the Thespiai area
99(2)
Suitability of crop production on these soils
101(1)
Land capability
102(1)
The modern extent and distribution of these soils
103(1)
Archaeological interpretation
103(1)
Environmental changes
103(2)
Impact of change on the productive potential of the area
105(1)
Comparison with other areas
106(1)
A land-use strategy for Thespiai
106(2)
Appendix 1
108(3)
Spatial Analysis of Boeotia Field-walking Survey Data
111(18)
Phil Howard
The terrain model
111(1)
Topographic analysis of site location
111(2)
Visibility analysis
113(1)
Visibility analysis of the Classical to Early Hellenistic sites
113(2)
Statistical analysis of viewsheds
115(5)
Cost-surface analysis
120(9)
The Sites in their Setting: Distribution, Chronology and Function
129(42)
Prehistory
129(2)
Geometric to Archaic
131(1)
Classical to Early Hellenistic
132(11)
Excursus: the question of population density in the chora of Thespiai
143(8)
Late Hellenistic and Early Roman
151(4)
Middle to Late Roman
155(11)
Medieval
166(5)
Conclusion
171(12)
The narrative of the landscape
171(8)
The medieval era
179(1)
Occupational cycles in the landscape
179(4)
Appendix A The Detailed Site-by-Site Analysis (continuing Chapter 6)
183(130)
Site Leondari Southeast 1 (LSE 1)
183(12)
Site LSE 2
195(5)
Site LSE 3
200(10)
Site LSE 4
210(7)
Site LSE 5
217(7)
Site LSE 6
224(9)
Site LSE 7
233(8)
Site Thespiai South 1 (THS 1)
241(5)
Site THS 2
246(7)
Site THS 3
253(7)
Site THS 4
260(6)
Site THS 11
266(5)
Site THS 12
271(7)
Site THS 13
278(7)
Site THS 14
285(8)
Site THS 15
293(4)
Site THS 16
297(8)
Site THS 17
305(8)
References A Publications of the Boeotia Project to 2007313(4)
References B Other References Cited317
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