The Minnesota Messenia Expedition: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Regional Environment |
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Contents
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SURVEYING AND MAPPING | 18 |
THE PHYSICAL SETTING | 36 |
A CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY | 47 |
THE POSTCLASSICAL DOCUMENTS | 64 |
GRECOROMAN TIMES LITERARY TRADITION AND TOPOGRAPHICAL COMMENTARY | 81 |
THE MYCENAEAN DOCUMENTS | 100 |
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION | 117 |
THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY | 177 |
VEGETATION HISTORY | 188 |
CERAMIC STUDIES | 200 |
METALLURGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL STUDIES | 225 |
GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION | 234 |
PERSPECTIVES | 240 |
APPENDIX | 263 |
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acropolis agricultural Alpheios ancient archaeological Ayios classical clay coast coastal copper core areas crops cultivation Deltion east evidence excavation glaze grain Greece Greek HAB-CEM habitation sites Helladic hill Hope Simpson irrigation Ithomi Kalamata Karpofora kiln km radi km to sea Koroni Kyparissia Late Bronze Age LHIIIB major Malthi medium Meligala Messene Messenia Messenian Gulf Methoni modern Morea Mountains Mycenaean Navarino Nedha Nichoria olive Olympia Osmanaga Lagoon palace Pamisos Valley pattern Pausanias Peloponnese percent period Petalidhi pithoi place-names plain Pocket Map pollen population pottery prehistoric probably production Province Pylos region ridge River Rizomilo road Roebuck route samples Secondary land sediment settlement sherds slopes soil southwest Peloponnese sparse Sparta spring Steniklarian surface tablets Taygetos terraces tholos Thouria Thucydides tion tombs towns trees Triphylia umme Valmin Venetian village Vounaria ware