The Hilltop Settlement at Kommos

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-138
Author(s):  
Maria C. Shaw ◽  
Lucia F. Nixon
Keyword(s):  
Hilltop Settlement

Radiocarbon Dating of Aghios Antonios, Potos, and Intersite Chronological Variability in South Thasos, Greece

Radiocarbon ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 807-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis Maniatis ◽  
Nerantzis Nerantzis ◽  
Stratis Papadopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The North ◽  
Chronological Sequence ◽  
Hilltop Settlement ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Early Late ◽  
Of Greece

Radiocarbon dates obtained for the coastal hilltop settlement of Aghios Antonios Potos in south Thasos are statistically treated to define the absolute chronology for the start and the end of the various habitation and cultural phases at the site. The location was first occupied during the Final Neolithic (FN) between 3800 and 3600 BC, extending this much contested phase to the lowest up to now record for Thasos and the northern Greece. The site is continuously inhabited from Early Bronze Age I until the early Late Bronze Age (LBA; 1363 BC) when it was abandoned. Comparison with other sites in Thasos and particularly with the inland site of Kastri Theologos showed that the first occupation at Aghios Antonios came soon after the abandonment of Kastri in the beginning of the 4th millennium. In fact, after the decline and abandonment of Aghios Antonios in the LBA, the site of Kastri was reinhabited, leading to the hypothesis that part of the coastal population moved inland. The presumed chronological sequence of alternate habitation between the two settlements may evoke explanations for sociocultural and/or environmental dynamics behind population movements in prehistoric Thasos. A major conclusion of the project is that the 4th millennium occupation gap attested in many sites of Greece, especially in the north, is probably bridged in south Thasos, when the data from all sites are taken together. The mobility of people in Final Neolithic south Thasos may explain the general phenomenon of limited occupational sequences in the FN of north Greece.

ARCHAIC WHEELMADE CERAMICS FROM THE CAVE OF MARONEIA AND KREMASTO (ASAR TEPE), AEGEAN THRACE

2013 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 137-185
Author(s):  
Petya Ilieva
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Area ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Tribal Area ◽  
Pottery Sherds ◽  
Hilltop Settlement ◽  
New Evidence

This article presents seventh and sixth century bc wheelmade ceramics excavated at two sites not far from the coastal area of Mount Ismaros in Aegean Thrace. It aims to introduce new evidence and to throw light on some aspects of the archaeology of the Archaic period in the area occupied by the Thracian Kikones. All the pottery sherds originate from the hilltop settlement at Kremasto (Asar Tepe) and the Cave of Maroneia, both located on the southern slopes of Mount Ismaros. Although both sites are situated in relative geographical proximity to one another, within the same ancient tribal area, they reveal two different patterns of human occupation and diversity in consumption patterns. The varying quantities and features of the wheelmade ceramics from both sites suggest that, while the limited sherds from the Kremasto settlement reflect, more likely, a sporadic import of luxurious objects by its inhabitants, the Grey and painted wares from the cave imply that they were used by people well acquainted with this type of pottery in their daily routine.

Excavations at D85 (Santa Maria in Cività): An Early Medieval Hilltop Settlement in Molise

1980 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 70-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hodges ◽  
Graeme Barker ◽  
Keith Wade
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Landscape Change ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hilltop Settlement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Santa Maria

Between 1974 and 1978 the settlement archaeology of the Biferno valley in Molise in southern Italy was investigated by a programme of field survey, excavation and allied archaeological research directed by one of us (GB) and termed the Molise Project. For the historic periods the archaeology has been combined with documentary studies; both have then been integrated with geomorphological research into the environmental history of the valley, forming an inter-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between human settlement and landscape change in the valley from prehistoric times to the present day. For interim reports on the project, see Barker (1976, 1977), Barker et al. (1978), and Lloyd and Barker (1981).

scholarly journals New discoveries at Mokarta, a Bronze Age hilltop settlement in western Sicily

Antiquity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (375) ◽  
pp. 686-704
Author(s):  
Christopher Sevara ◽  
Roderick B. Salisbury ◽  
Ralf Totschnig ◽  
Michael Doneus ◽  
Klaus Löcker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Western Sicily ◽  
Hilltop Settlement

Abstract

Socioeconomic Inequality and the Consumption of Chipped Stone at El Palmillo, Oaxaca, Mexico

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary M. Feinman ◽  
Linda M. Nicholas ◽  
Helen R. Haines
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Inequality ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Spatial Patterning ◽  
Chipped Stone ◽  
Valley Of Oaxaca ◽  
Hilltop Settlement ◽  
Marine Shell

AbstractIn prehispanic Mesoamerica, basic utilitarian artifacts, such as non-obsidian chipped stone tools, have rarely been considered outside the realms of technology or the economics of manufacture and circulation. Yet in recent excavations of residential terraces at the Classic period hilltop settlement of El Palmillo, Oaxaca, we have noted spatial patterning in the distribution of chipped stone tools that parallels variation previously observed in a range of nonlocal goods including obsidian, marine shell, and greenstone. Compared to the inhabitants of terraces situated near the base of the site, the apparently higher-status residents of households residing closer to the hill’s apex not only were associated with a somewhat different assemblage of stone tools and debris, but their chipped stone implements tended to be made on better-quality raw materials. As a consequence, chipped stone assemblages can serve as an additional axis of variation for examining status distinctions in the Classic period Valley of Oaxaca, and potentially elsewhere in Mesoamerica.

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