The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: A Retrospective

Edited by Jack L. Davis & John Bennet

City: Princeton

Year: 2017

Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Description: Paperback, 563 p., numerous b/w tables, numerous b/w figures, 21.5 x 28 cm

Abstract

This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1990 to investigate the history of prehistoric and historic settlement in western Messenia in Greece. An introduction, setting the project in context, and an extensive gazetteer of sites precede a collection of eight previously published articles, which appeared in Hesperia, the journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, between 1997 and 2010. Taken together, these contributions document a comprehensive methodological approach by an archaeological project that was one of the first to incorporate new technologies such as digital mapping tools and online databases. The results of such a long-term and multifaceted research program illuminate the shifting relationships between humans, their landscapes, and historical forces, both local and distant.

The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: A Retrospective provides an invaluable resource not only for those interested in the history and development of southwestern Greece but also for researchers interested in exploring the full range of methodological approaches to archaeological survey.

Contents

Project Participants [vii-x]

Chronological Abbreviations [xi-xii]

Introduction [1-14]
Jack L. Davis & John Bennet

Site Gazetteer [15-62]
Jack L. Davis & John Bennet, with contributions by Sebastian Heath and Efthymia Tsolaki

Chapter 1. The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part I: Overview and the Archaeological Survey [63-151]
Jack L. Davis, Susan E. Alcock, John Bennet, Yannos G. Lolos & Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

Chapter 2. The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part II: Landscape Evolution and Site Preservation [153-234]
Eberhard Zangger, Michael E. Timpson, Sergei B. Yazvenko, Falko Kuhnke & Jost Knauss

Chapter 3. Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part III: Sir William Gell’s Itinerary in the Pylia and Regional Landscapes in the Morea in the Second Ottoman Period [235-272]
John Bennet, Jack L. Davis & Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr

Chapter 4. Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part IV: Change and the Human Landscape in a Modern Greek Village in Messenia [273-322]
Wayne E. Lee

Chapter 5. Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part V: Deriziotis Aloni: A Small Bronze Age Site in Messenia [323-386]
Sharon R. Stocker

Chapter 6. Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VI: Administration and Settlement in Venetian Navarino [387-448]
Siriol Davies

Chapter 7. Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VII: Historical Messenia, Geometric through Late Roman [449-512]
Susan E. Alcock, Andrea M. Berlin, Ann B. Harrison, Sebastian Heath, Nigel Spencer & David L. Stone

Chapter 8. Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VIII: Lithics and Landscapes: A Messenian Perspective [513-564]
William A. Parkinson & John F. Cherry