Category: Landscape, Southern Corinthia
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Deserted Mediterranean Villages
I just got my hands on this sweet little book Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean. Published by the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota and edited by Rebecca Seifried and Deborah Brown Stewart, it features a series of case studies about the nature of abandonment in modern and premodern times. For…
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Bridge of the Untiring Sea (Gebhard and Gregory, eds.)
I finally have my hands on Bridge of the Untiring Sea: the Corinthian Isthmus from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, fresh off the press (December 2015) from the Princeton office of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. I wrote briefly about this forthcoming book in June (here and here). The Bridge has been a long time in the making. It…
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The (Almost) Abandoned Village of Lakka Skoutara
Last Friday, the Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology in Greece Interest Group co-sponsored a colloquium in two sessions at the Archaeological Institute of America on the theme of “Deserted Villages.” The first session was devoted to the subject of villages before abandonment and included papers on “The ‘Dead Villages’ of Northern Syria” (Anna M. Sitz), “Village Desertion and Settlement Patterns in…
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Deserted Villages Session: AIA 2016
Another interesting conference session is in the works—this one for the 2016 meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America on the theme of “Deserted Villages.” I had never seen as much talk on FB about “abandonment” and “formation processes” as the day last summer when friends began to bandy about this session idea. Proposed Colloquium Session for…
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Portal to the Past: A Digital Resource
The Canadian Institute in Greece recently announced a new digital tool called “Portal to the Past: Digital Archive of Archaeological Projects and Research.” According to the press release posted on the Canadian Institute website, “The user will find detailed information pertaining to all 18 field projects that have been undertaken during the CIG’s history. These…
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Corinthian Scholarship Monthly (October 2013)
Here’s the round-up of new Corinthiaka scholarship for the month of October. Happy Reading. You can also find these entries at the Corinthian Studies Group Library Page in Zotero. Bronze Age Pullen, Daniel. “The Life and Death of a Mycenaean Port Town: Kalamianos on the Saronic Gulf.” Journal of Maritime Archaeology no. October (2013): 1–18.…
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Maps of the Corinthia
I have updated the Maps section of this website as well as the subdirectories for Contours and Maps of the Corinthia. The latter contains a gallery of maps generated for free distribution for educational and research purposes. The maps present the Corinthia at different scales, with 20 meter and 100 meter contours, generated from the…
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Corinthiaka at the AIA
The AIA has posted a preliminary program of the 70+ paper sessions, workshops, and colloquia for the AIA in Seattle in January 2013. As in previous years (2012, 2011), the Corinthia makes a good showing. If you’re going to the AIA and want to blog or tweet or report on the conference (or parts of…
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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),…
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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…
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