Reconstructing the Settled Landscape of the Cyclades

The Islands of Paros and Naxos During the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-8728-303-2
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 272 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 1020 g

Reihe: Archaeological Studies Leiden University

The aim of this book is to offer a fresh approach to the history and archaeology of the Cyclades in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Early Middle Ages in light of current archaeological investigations. It is an attempt to interpret human-environmental interaction in order to “read” the relationship between islands, settlements, landscapes and seascapes in the context of the diverse and highly interactive Mediterranean world. It offers an interdisciplinary approach, which combines archaeological evidence, literary sources, and observations of the sites and microlandscapes as a whole, using the advantages offered by the application of new technologies in archaeological research (Geographic Information Systems). The islands of Paros and Naxos are used as case-studies. The author traces how these neighbouring insular communities reacted under the same general circumstances pertaining in the Aegean and to what extent the landscape played a role in this process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roussos, Konstantinos Z

Roussos, Konstantinos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
1.1. The Late Antique and Early Medieval Cyclades as case studies
1.2. Methodological approaches, aims and methods
1.3. The historiographical questions and the contribution of Landscape Archaeology in Late Antique and the Byzantine period
1.4. A history of research
2. Natural environment
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Geography and geomorphology
3. The social and economic history of the Cyclades
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Aegean Sea: connectivity and integration
3.3. Late Antique or the Late Roman Era (early 4th – middle 7th c.)
3.4. The Byzantine Early Middle Ages (late 7th – early 10th c.)
3.5. The Middle Byzantine Period (middle 10th – early 13th c.)
3.6. Summary and conclusions
4. The settlement pattern and material culture of the island of Paros
4.1. The Parian landscape
4.2. The region of Parikia: a diachronic Aegean coastal urban centre
4.3. The region of Naoussa: an Aegean coastal pottery production centre
4.4. North central Paros
4.5. Eastern coast of Paros: an extensive productive zone
4.6. Southwest Paros
4.7. Conclusions
5. The settlement pattern and material culture of the island of Naxos
5.1. The Naxian landscape
5.2. The region of Chora: a diachronic Aegean coastal urban centre
5.3. Western lowland Naxos
5.4. Mountainous central Naxos
5.5. Southeast Naxos
5.6. North Naxos
5.7. Conclusions
6. Paros and Naxos in context
6.1. A comparative view of the settled landscapes of Paros and Naxos during Late Antiquity
6.2. Paros and Naxos in the transition to the Byzantine Early Middle Ages: two different stories
6.3. Naxos, Paros and the Cyclades from the Middle 9th to the 12th century
7. General concluding remarks
References

Über Autor(innen)

Roussos, Konstantinos
Konstantinos Roussos completed his Ph.D. research at the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University (2017). He is currently involved as Research Fellow in the “Amorium Urban Archaeology Project” at Anadolu University, Turkey.