Old Lands takes readers on an epic journey through the legion
spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the
footsteps of a Roman periegete, an Ottoman traveler, antiquarians,
and anonymous agrarians. Following waters in search of rest through
the lens of Lucretian poetics, Christopher Witmore reconstitutes an
untimely mode of ambulatory writing, chorography, mindful of the
challenges we all face in these precarious times. Turning on
pressing concerns that arise out of object-oriented encounters, Old
Lands ponders the disappearance of an agrarian world rooted in the
Neolithic, the transition to urban-styles of living, and changes in
communication, movement, and metabolism, while opening fresh
perspectives on long-term inhabitation, changing mobilities, and
appropriation through pollution. Carefully composed with those
objects encountered along its varied paths, this book offers an
original and wonderous account of a region in twenty-seven
segments, and fulfills a longstanding ambition within archaeology
to generate a polychronic narrative that stands as a complement and
alternative to diachronic history. Old Lands will be of interest to
historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and scholars of the
Eastern Peloponnese. Those interested in the long-term changes in
society, technology, and culture in this region will find this book
captivating.
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