The Laconia Rural Sites Project

by: Cavanagh, W. Mee, Chr. James, P. Brodie, N. Carter, T.

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Contents:
List of Figures
vii
List of Tables
xiii
Preface xv
Introduction
1 (14)
History and aims of research (WGC)
1 (1)
The Laconia Survey and the origins of the Laconia Rural Sites Project
1 (1)
The function of rural sites (CBM)
2 (3)
Characteristics of rural sites
2 (1)
Literary and epigraphic evidence
3 (1)
Ethnographic evidence
4 (1)
Land tenure and rural residence in antiquity
4 (1)
Land tenure and rural residence in Laconia (CBM and WGC)
5 (10)
Prehistoric
5 (1)
Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic
6 (4)
Roman
10 (1)
Byzantine and Ottoman
10 (5)
Methodology
15 (24)
Methodological background: intensive survey of sites (WGC)
15 (1)
Methodological background: the impact of post-depositional effects (CBM and WGC)
16 (4)
Geomorphological processes
16 (1)
Effects of agriculture
17 (3)
Methodological background: geophysical prospection in the Mediterranean (NB)
20 (3)
Introduction
20 (1)
Magnetometry
20 (3)
Resistivity
23 (1)
Methodological background: archaeological soil analysis (PJ)
23 (6)
Introduction
23 (2)
Archaeological soils: composition, development and information survival
25 (3)
Archaeological soil analysis in the Mediterranean
28 (1)
Methodology in the field: artefact data collection and interpretation (WGC)
29 (1)
Methodology in the field: geophysical prospection and interpretation (NB)
30 (2)
Methodology in the field: soils analysis and interpretation (PJ)
32 (7)
The Sites
39 (242)
Selection of sites for study (WGC)
39 (1)
The physical environment (PJ)
39 (5)
Presentation of the site data
44 (1)
Survey data (WGC, CBM, PJ, NB, TC)
45 (236)
LP7
45 (15)
LP8
60 (20)
LP10
80 (16)
LP20
96 (14)
LP18
110 (16)
LP19
126 (12)
LP14
138 (10)
LP11
148 (8)
LP5
156 (10)
LP17
166 (8)
LP3
174 (10)
LP15
184 (12)
LP4
196 (14)
LP2
210 (10)
LP13
220 (11)
LP12
231 (8)
LP1
239 (18)
LP6
257 (8)
LP9
265 (5)
LP16
270 (11)
Conclusions
281 (40)
Choice of sites (WGC)
281 (2)
Grid size (WGC)
283 (1)
Clicker counts (WGC)
284 (6)
Comparison of clicker counts and surface collection
286 (4)
Artefact collection and analysis (WGC and CBM)
290 (15)
Tile
290 (2)
The distribution of tile and sherd
292 (6)
Pottery
298 (5)
Chipped stone (TC)
303 (2)
Soil analyses (PJ)
305 (4)
Spatial relationships and their possible causes
305 (3)
Spatial scales
308 (1)
Correlation of artefact, geophysical and soils data (WGC and CBM)
309 (1)
Post-depositional effects (CBM)
310 (2)
Geomorphological processes and the effects of agriculture
310 (2)
Site function (WGC and CBM)
312 (4)
Prehistoric
312 (1)
Archaic--Classical
313 (2)
Hellenistic--Roman
315 (1)
Byzantine--Ottoman
315 (1)
Retrospect and prospect (WGC and CBM)
316 (5)
Bibliography 321 (14)
Index 335

Series:
Supplementary volume (British School at Athens), no. 36

xv, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

The Laconia Rural Sites Project

by: Cavanagh, W. Mee, Chr. James, P. Brodie, N. Carter, T.

• ISBN-13: 9780904887471 / 978-0-904887-47-1
• ISBN-03: 0904887472 / 0-904887-47-2
• The British School at Athens, London, 2005

Price: 185,00 EURO

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