Overview
Many new results on Middle and Late Bronze Age Laconia are presented in this volume, stemming from recent excavations by the Greek Archaeological Service as well as ongoing excavations, surveys and material studies by foreign schools and individual scholars. Among discussed settlements are the sites of Pellana, Palaiopyrgi, Geraki, Pavlopetri and Vrysika and also the island Kythera. The newly discovered palatial site at Ayios Vasileios is also elaborately discussed in various papers, including discussions of its North Cemetery, early Mycenaean pottery deposits, the West Stoa, and an outline of the habitation history and size of Ayios Vasileios compared to other palatial settlements. More than 25 years have passed since the publication of a paper by Oliver Dickinson in which he wrote about central Late Helladic Laconia that he had an impression of ""competing and unstable principalities in the early period and perhaps centrifugal tendencies"". In this volume we explore to what extent this impression is still justified. Especially considering the recent discovery of a palatial site at Ayios Vasileios. Indeed, this volume shows that in the past decades much has happened in Laconia with respect to what we know about the Bronze Age. We are therefore extra pleased that Oliver Dickinson has agreed to write an Afterword to this volume. Written by academics and those working in the fields of Bronze Age Greece, Laconia, ceramic analyses, architecture, survey, and photogrammetry this volume will be invaluable to students and practitioners with similar interests.
Full Product Details
Author: Corien Wiersma ,
Maria P Tsouli
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Volume: 7
ISBN: 9789464260625
ISBN 10: 9464260629
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 28 May 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Corien Wiersma is a Dutch archaeologist, who did her master at the University of Groningen in 2006, and defended her Ph.D thesis in October 2013 at the same university. She has published and co-authored various books on the Aegean Bronze Age, including ‘Building the Bronze Age. Architectural and Social Change on the Greek Mainland during Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I’, ‘Social and Material Change in Aegean Prehistory’ and ‘Magoúla Pavlína. A Middle Bronze Age site in the Soúrpi Plain (Thessalia, Greece)’. From 2015-2019 she acted as the field-director of the Ayios Vasileios Survey Project.
