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

by: Bintliff, J. Howard, Ph. Snodgrass, A.

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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.

Subjects:
archaeology: general
Antiquities
Archäologische Stätte
Boeotië
CD-ROMs
Excavations (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology) Greece Voiōtia
Fouilles (Archéologie) Grèce Béotie
Funde
Geschichte 1989-1991
Greece Voiōtia
Landschapsarcheologie
Survey-onderzoek
Thespiä
Voiōtia (Greece) Antiquities

xviii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).

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

by: Bintliff, J. Howard, Ph. Snodgrass, A.

• ISBN-13: 9781902937373 / 978-1-902937-37-3
• ISBN-03: 1902937376 / 1-902937-37-6
• McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, 2007

Price: 80,00 EURO

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