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The Boeotia Survey in Greece is widely recognised 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
5th century BC and the 6th century AD, as well as providing an
exemplar for Mediterranean landscape archaeology more generally.
Classical archaeology has changed beyond recognition in the past
generation, in its aims, its choice of subject-matter and the
methods it uses. This book brings together twenty-five papers by A.
M. Snodgrass, some of them previously published only in rather
inaccessible places, which have contributed to this change. They
cover four decades of work on pre-Classical and Classical Greece
and some adjacent fields of scholarship, beginning in the 1960s
when Classical archaeology was not widely seen as a free-standing
subject. They chart the progress of a movement for the intellectual
independence of Greek archaeology and art, from history and textual
studies and for recognition among other branches of archaeology.
The key theme of the papers is the importance of the Iron Age as
the formative period in the making of Classical Greece and the
author varies this with comment on literature, history,
anthropology, Aegean and European prehistory and Roman provincial
archaeology. This book will be an important one for all archaeology
and ancient history collections. This collection of essays
*represents innovative work in Classical archaeology *challenges
accepted boundaries and inhibitions *is wide in scope covering
history, prehistory, art, literary interpretation, field
archaeology
Eight papers, seven in English and one in German, from a seminar
held at Cambridge University in 1996 on the subject of Greek
colonisation and settlement in the East Mediterranean and the
Pontus. Based on literary and archaeological evidence the
contributors assess the social, political, economic and cultural
interaction between the Greeks and the indigenous people. Contents:
Greeks and Syria (J Boardman); Greek contact with the Levant and
Mesopotamia (A Kuhrt); The Poleis of the southern Anatolia coast (A
G Keen); Herodotus on the Black Sea coastline and Greek settlements
(J Hind); Aspects of the Pontic and Eastern Mediterranean regions
(Z H Archibald); Colonial origins in the Black Sea region (D
Braund); Ionians abroad (G R Tsetskhladze); Archaische attische
Keramik in Ionien
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