Publication Date

2021

Journal or Book Title

The Annual of the British School at Athens

Abstract

We present the results of a diachronic survey of the Katsaronio plain in the Karystia, southern Euboea, Greece. The project was organized under the aegis of the Norwegian Institute at Athens with a permit from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture under the official name of the Norwegian Archaeological Survey in the Karystia. Five years of fieldwork (2012–16) covered an area of 20 km2 in a large agricultural plain located about 5 km north-west of the town of Karystos. The survey identified 99 new findspots with a range of dates spanning from the Final Neolithic to Early Modern times. Here we present the collected prehistoric through Roman data, which represent the bulk of the acquired evidence. One of the notable features of the assemblage is the vast quantity of lithics that were recovered, numbering over 9,000 and consisting mainly of obsidian. Certain periods were absent from the evidence, such as post-Early Bronze Age prehistoric and Geometric, while others were represented with varying intensity. We offer initial interpretation of the patterns observable in the evidence in an attempt to reconstruct the past use and habitation of this part of Euboea.

Author ORCID Identifier

Žarko Tankosić: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5404-4151

Alexandros Laftsidis: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2013-3447

Aikaterini Psoma: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6352-5478

Rebecca M. Seifried: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4372-2164

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068245420000179

Pages

1-33

Volume

116

License

UMass Amherst Open Access Policy

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Funder

E. A. Schrader Endowment for Classical Archaeology at Indiana University, Norwegian Institute at Athens

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