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ARTICLES | 2026

Identifying the earliest Neolithic settlements in the southeastern Balkans: methodological considerations based on the recent geoarchaeological investigations at Dikili Tash (Greek eastern Macedonia)

Laurent Lespez, Zoï Tsirtsoni, Pascal Darcque, Dimitra Malamidou, Haïdo Koukouli-Chryssanthaki & Arthur Glais In A. Reingruber, Z. Tsirtsoni, P. Nedelcheva 2017 (eds). Going West? The Dissemination of Neolithic Innovations between the Bosporus and the Carpathians. Proceedings of the EAA Conference, Instabul, 11 September 2014, Oxon-New York: 43-55.

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Whither the Aegean Neolithic?

Burçin Erdoğu In A. Reingruber, Z. Tsirtsoni, P. Nedelcheva 2017 (eds). Going West? The Dissemination of Neolithic Innovations between the Bosporus and the Carpathians. Proceedings of the EAA Conference, Instabul, 11 September 2014, Oxon-New York: 29-41.

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Looking for the invisible: landscape change and ceramic manufacture during the Final Neolithic-Early Bronze Age at Phaistos (Crete, Greece)

Roberta Mentesana, Vincenzo Amato, Peter M. Day, Matthieu Ghilardi, Vassilis Kilikoglou, Fausto Longo & Simona Todaro In M. Ghilardi, F. Leandri, J. Bloemendal, L. Lespez & S. Fachard (eds) 2016. Géoarchélogie des îles de Mediterranée, Paris: 299-310

The present landscape of the Mesara Plain, an intermountain basin located in Southern Crete, results from millennia of geological transformation. Human presence in the area had a strong impact on landscape change since the Final Neolithic (second half of the 4th millennium BC), when the first signs of land erosion and deforestation appeared.

Early Holocene Interaction in the Aegean Islands: Mesolithic Chert Exploitation at Stélida (Naxos, Greece) in Context

Tristan Carter, Daniel A. Contreras, Sean Doyle, Danica D. Mihailović & Nikolaos Skarpelis In M. Ghilardi, F. Leandri, J. Bloemendal, L. Lespez & S. Fachard (eds) 2016. Géoarchélogie des îles de Mediterranée, Paris: 275-286.

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This paper details the Mesolithic component (potential date 9000-7000 cal. BC) of a recent geo-archaeological survey of Stélida, a chert source and associated stone tool making workshops on Naxos, the largest of the Cycladic islands (southern Greece). The history of research is provided, followed by a precis of the survey methods, and the results of the geological study.

Changements environnementaux et impact des sociétés humaines autour du site minoen de Malia (Crète, Grèce). Bilan des acquis et nouvelles recherches

Laurent Lespez, Sylvie Müller Celka & Maia Pomadère In M. Ghilardi, F. Leandri, J. Bloemendal, L. Lespez & S. Fachard (eds) 2016. Géoarchélogie des îles de Mediterranée, Paris: 245-257.

Les recherches géoarchéologiques se sont multipliées en Grèce au cours des vingt dernières années. Elles reposent aujourd’hui de plus en plus souvent sur l’intégration de travaux géographiques, paléoenvi-ronnementales, archéologiques et historiques selon des méthodes qui permettent de reconstituer l’évolution des paysages et des rapports Nature/Société au cours des derniers millénaires.

La costa occidentale dell’ Attica durante il Neolitico Finale e il Bronzo Antico: scelte insediative e rapporti con le Cicladi

Vasiliki Eleni Dimitriou In F. Longo, R. di Cesare & S. Privitera (eds) 2016. ΔΡΟΜΟΙ. Studi sul mondo antico offerti a Emanuele Greco dagli allievi della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, Atene-Paestum: 37-47.

Direct or indirect trade between the west coast of Attica and settlements in Attica itself and in the Cyclades are attested as early as the Final Neolithic. This moves the Aegean cultural koiné of BA II identified by Renfrew almost a thousand year back.

Le cadre géographique et la présence humaine à l’époque prèhistoire

Haïdo Koukouli-Chrysanthaki In J. Fournier (ed.), 2016. Philippes, de la Préhistoire à Byzance (BCH Supplément 55), Athènes: 23-43.

Dans la seconde phase de l’Holocène, depuis 3000 av. J.-C. jusqu’à aujourd’hui, les modifications qui ont débuté au Bronze Récent, lorsque les activités humaines se sont peu à peu transportées en altitude, ont été plus rapides. Les changements environnementaux ont été plus nombreux et plus soutenus du IVe s. av. J.-C. jusqu’à l’Antiquité tardive, en raison de l’augmentation démographique et de la création de centres urbains.

Seefahrt und Handel im östlichen Mittelmeer ca. 1550-400 v. Chr.

Martin Eckert In M. Seifert & L. Ziemer (eds) 2015. North meets East 1. Aktuelle Forschungen zu antiken Häfen. Ein Workshop veranstaltet von Julia Daum und Martina Siefert an der Universität Hamburg vom siebten bis achten Februar 2014, Aachen: 31-84.

Since the underwater research technology has witnessed remarkable improvements, land-based research is increasingly accompanied by projects that venture a glance under the water’s surface, or even conduct underwater archaeology on the open sea. Due to this development, the Eastern Mediterranean begins to be examined more according to its quality as a maritime space, which demands a corresponding way of investigation: less by approaching the sea from the shore, but more by engaging the shores from the sea.

Infrastrukturen früher griechischer Häfen und Landeplätze-maritime Handelsknotenpunkte auf den Kykladen, Kreta und Sizilien

Martina Seifert In M. Seifert & L. Ziemer (eds), 2015. North meets East 1. Aktuelle Forschungen zu antiken Häfen. Ein Workshop veranstaltet von Julia Daum und Martina Siefert an der Universität Hamburg vom siebten bis achten Februar 2014, Aachen: 1-30.

It will be argued that within the chosen examples the first port structures appeared in the Minoan area during the 14th century BCE, about at the same time as at Phoenician places at the Levant and on Cyprus. Harbour facilities have also been characteristic features of archaic settlements and poleis at the coast whilst on the early Cyclades natural landing places seem to have sufficed.