The Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula (Prehistory Monographs)

The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented: a brief salvage excavation at Plakari (a Final Neolithic site near the modern town of Karystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on the Paximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystos bay), both located in southern Euboea. These ventures were part of the larger mission of the Southern Euboea Exploration Project (SEEP), a multidisciplinary research program dedicated to the study of the Karystian past and which maintained a presence in southern Euboea for over 25 years. These projects have found that, contrary to what archaeologists once believed, southern Euboea was hardly an uninhabited and isolated region in prehistory. The inhabitants actively participated in the expanded maritime and social landscape that characterised the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Aegean, taking part in exchange networks of stone, ceramics, marble figurines and vessels, and possibly agricultural goods and metalwork. Table of Contents 1. Introduction, 2. Landscape and Environment, 3. Investigations at Plakari, 4. The Survey, 5. Ceramic and Lithic Industries: Synthesis and Interconnections, 6. The Paximadi Peninsula in Broader Perspective, Appendix: Gazetteer of Prehistoric Sites and Findspots, References, Index, Figures, Plates The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented: a brief salvage excavation at Plakari (a Final Neolithic site near the modern town of Karystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on the Paximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystos bay), both located in southern Euboea. These ventures were part of the larger mission of the Southern Euboea Exploration Project (SEEP), a multidisciplinary research program dedicated to the study of the Karystian past and which maintained a presence in southern Euboea for over 25 years. These projects have found that, contrary to what archaeologists once believed, southern Euboea was hardly an uninhabited and isolated region in prehistory. The inhabitants actively participated in the expanded maritime and social landscape that characterized the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Aegean, taking part in exchange networks of stone, ceramics, marble figurines and vessels, and possibly agricultural goods and metalwork. Cover 1 Title Page 4 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 List of Tables in the Text 12 List of Figures 14 List of Plates 16 Preface 20 Acknowledgments 22 List of Abbreviations 26 1. Introduction 28 2. Landscape and Environment 42 3. Investigations at Plakari 48 4. The Survey 70 5. Ceramic and Lithic Industries: Synthesis and Interconnections 94 6. The Paximadi Peninsula in Broader Perspective 112 Appendix: Gazetteer of Prehistoric Sites and Findspots 140 References 164 Index 180 Figures 190 Plates 230 The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented in this book: a brief salvage excavation at Plakari (a Final Neolithic site near the modern town of Karystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on the Paximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystos bay), both located in southern Euboea. By Tracey Cullen ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.