Category: Agriculture

  • A Working Paper on Lakka Skoutara in the Corinthia

    With the recent preliminary publication of the work by the SHARP team at the site of Kalamianos in the southeastern Corinthia, it seemed like a good opportunity for David Pettegrew, Tim Gregory, Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory and I to dust off a long-in-progress manuscript dealing with the site of Lakka Skoutara. This paper is still very much…

  • Interpreting Ceramic Assemblages from the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project

    Chris Cloke concludes his three-part series today on patterns of settlement and land use in the Nemea Valley.  If you missed the first two, start by reading Part 1 and Part 2.  Part 1 defines “site” and “off-site” (or “tract”) in terms of NVAP procedure. In today’s final post on the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project (NVAP),…

  • The Nemea Valley, Archaeological Survey, and Manuring

    Chris Cloke continues his three-part series today on the interpretation of Greek and Roman artifact patterns in the Nemea Valley.  If you’re just joining in, start by reading Part 1.  *************************************************** In this, the second of three posts looking at survey data from the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project (NVAP), I’ll be delving further into the…

  • Chris Cloke on Survey and Agriculture in the Nemea Valley

    I was sorry to have missed Chris Cloke’s talk on the Nemea Valley at the recent meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.  He was kind enough to send me a draft of the paper which has got me thinking again about the human behaviors behind artifact scatters documented in archaeological survey.  Since Bill Caraher…

  • Byzantine Corinth: 2011 Publications (and a note on relative frequency of Corinthiaka)

    In originally separating the recent scholarship on Byzantine-Modern from the 2011  scholarship on Ancient Corinth, I had forgotten that the pickings were so few.  This is a rather sad list (in terms of quantity), and I will combine these three entries in the permanent page for 2011 archaeology and historical publications. Bourbou, Chryssi, Benjamin T.…

  • Abstracts of the AIA / APA 2012 Meetings

    I had planned to post reviews of the AIA / APA meetings a little more than a week ago, but illness and the preparations for a new semester sapped all my momentum.  I have a lot of material in the queue including December scholarship monthly and the scholarship rolls of 2011 which I hope to…

  • A Paper on Corinthian Peasants

    Among the gaggle of Corinthian papers at this year’s Archaeological Institute of America/American Philological Associate Annual Meeting is a paper that David Pettegrew and I offer on peasants in the Corinthian countryside for a joint APA/AIA panel organized by Kim Bowes and Cam Grey from the University of Pennsylvania. (I’ve been blogging about this topic for some…

  • Corinth at the AIA / APA Meetings: January 5-8, 2012

    Tomorrow begin the annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association in Philadelphia.  I repost below info about Corinth papers.  If any one would like to contribute reviews of individual papers or sessions, let me know.  Friday Morning (Jan. 6) “The Archaic Temple at Isthmia Reconsidered” – Cornelis J. (Neil)…

  • Return of Winter Landscape

    If you have only visited Greece in May to September, the green growth of winter may be surprising.  Note the clouds in the second photo.  Photos by D. Pettegrew November 28 and December 7, 2004.