The Ancient Greek Farmstead
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2017
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-640-0 (ISBN)
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-640-0 (ISBN)
A new study of ancient Greek farmsteads from the Classical to the Hellenistic periods combining archaeological and textual data to demonstrate the fundamental role these sites played in ancient Greek agriculture.
The interpretation of archaeological remains as farmsteads has met with much debate in scholarship regarding their role, identification, and even their existence. Despite the difficult nature of scholarship surrounding farmsteads, this site type is repeatedly used to describe small sites in the countryside which have varying evidence of domestic, storage, and agricultural activity. The aim of this book is to engage with the archaeological and textual data for farmsteads dating to the Classical–Hellenistic period of mainland Greece, with the purpose of understanding how these sites fulfilled agricultural roles as centres for occupation, storage, and processing for those working the land. The conclusions reached here stress the connected nature of the agricultural landscape, and demonstrate how farmsteads played a fundamental role in ancient Greek agriculture.
The interpretation of archaeological remains as farmsteads has met with much debate in scholarship regarding their role, identification, and even their existence. Despite the difficult nature of scholarship surrounding farmsteads, this site type is repeatedly used to describe small sites in the countryside which have varying evidence of domestic, storage, and agricultural activity. The aim of this book is to engage with the archaeological and textual data for farmsteads dating to the Classical–Hellenistic period of mainland Greece, with the purpose of understanding how these sites fulfilled agricultural roles as centres for occupation, storage, and processing for those working the land. The conclusions reached here stress the connected nature of the agricultural landscape, and demonstrate how farmsteads played a fundamental role in ancient Greek agriculture.
Maeve McHugh is a Research Associate at the Humanities Institute, University College Dublin. She specializes in classical archaeology with a focus on the archaeology of rural life in ancient Greece and the digital modelling of ancient landscapes. She is an active field archaeologist and has taken part in regional surveys in mainland Greece and the Greek islands. Maeve currently participates in the diachronic pedestrian landscape survey of the Mazi Plain (Mazi Archaeological Project) in northwest Attica, Greece. She has taught as a tutor and lecturer for courses with a wide geographic and chronological range from Minoan Crete through Imperial Rome for the School of Classics, and the Adult Education Centre at University College Dublin.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2017 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78570-640-3 / 1785706403 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78570-640-0 / 9781785706400 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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