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Book SynopsisPyla-Koutsopetria I presents the results of an intensive pedestrian survey documenting the diachronic history of a 100ha microregion along the coast of Cyprus. It featured an Iron Age sanctuary, a Classical settlement, a Hellenistic fortification, a Late Roman town and a Venetian-Ottoman coastal battery situated adjacent to a natural harbour.
Trade Review
This volume adds to [the authors'] already impressive engagements with the practice and impact of archaeological surveying (both in print and online), and is vital for anybody interested in diachronic landscapes, the practice of archaeological survey and the presentation of archaeological data. This is easily one of the most important books on survey to have been published in the past five years.
Dan Stewart, University of Leicester, Antiquity, October 2015
This volume represents a significant contribution to the published survey data for Cyprus, and the authors' straightforward discussions of the region's material will form a critical and methodologically rigorous reference for those interested in the region or in island-wide trends. Pyla Koutsopetria Archaeological Project certainly fills a gap in our understandings of first-millennium CE landscapes for the eastern coastal areas of Cyprus. The in-depth discussions of sampling and grid strategies will also be a great resource for scholars and practitioners of Mediterranean survey more broadly. [...] PKAP places a lesser-known landscape in a prominent position and provides robust material for future investigations.
Catherine Kearns, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2016.02.39
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Chapter 1 – Introduction (William Caraher, R. Scott Moore & David K. Pettegrew)
1.1. History of Work in the Micro-Region
1.2. Debates in Mediterranean Studies
1.3. Plan of the Work
1.4. Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 – Intensive Survey (William Caraher, Dimitri Nakassis & David K. Pettegrew)
2.1. High-Resolution Survey
2.3. Distributional Data: Counting and Chronotypes
2.4. Geological and Geomorphological Survey
2.5. Conclusions
Chapter 3 – Survey Data and Experiments in Sampling (David K. Pettegrew)
3.1. The 2004 and 2006 Experiments: Pedestrian Survey (20%) vs. Hoovering (5%)
3.2. The 2010 Experiments: Pedestrian Resurvey and Hoovering Sub-Units
3.3. Discussion
Chapter 4 – Catalogue of Finds (R. Scott Moore & Brandon R. Olson)
4.1. Fine Wares
4.2. Kitchen Wares
4.3. Medium Coarse Wares
4.4. Coarse Wares
4.5. Amphorae
4.6. Pithoi
4.7. Roof Tiles
4.8. Lamps
4.9. Conclusions on Ceramic Assemblage
4.10. Figurines (Maria Andrioti)
4.11. A Contextual and Epigraphic Analysis of the Inscribed Glandes (Sling Bullets)from Vigla (Brandon R. Olson)
4.12. Lithic Artifacts (P. Nick Kardulias)
Chapter 5 – Artifact Distributions (William Caraher & David K. Pettegrew)
5.1. The Survey Assemblage
5.2. The Distributional Pattern of Total Artifact Density: Zones
5.3. Period-Based Analysis
Chapter 6 – Features in the Landscape (William Caraher)
6.1. Features
6.2. The Hellenistic Fortification Wall at Vigla
6.3. The Venetian Wall at Koutsopetria
6.4. The Early Christian Basilica at Koutsopetria
6.5. Conclusions
Chapter 7 – Historical Conclusions (William Caraher)
7.1. Koutsopetria in Prehistory
7.2. Koutsopetria in the Early Iron Age and the Geometric Period
7.3. Koutsopetria in the Cypro-Archaic Period
7.4. Koutsopetria in the Cypro-Classical Period
7.5. Koutsopetria in the Hellenistic Period
7.6. Koutsopetria in the Early Roman Period
7.7. Koutsopetria in Late Antiquity
7.8. Koutsopetria after Antiquity
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
