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TOWARDS A MULTI-SCALAR, MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE CLASSICAL GREEK CITY: THE OLYNTHOS PROJECT
- Source :
- The Annual of the British School at Athens. 112:155-206
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017.
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Abstract
- Research on the cities of the Classical Greek world has traditionally focused on mapping the organisation of urban space and studying major civic or religious buildings. More recently, newer techniques such as field survey and geophysical survey have facilitated exploration of the extent and character of larger areas within urban settlements, raising questions about economic processes. At the same time, detailed analysis of residential buildings has also supported a change of emphasis towards understanding some of the functional and social aspects of the built environment as well as purely formal ones. This article argues for the advantages of analysing Greek cities using a multidisciplinary, multi-scalar framework which encompasses all of these various approaches and adds to them other analytical techniques (particularly micro-archaeology). We suggest that this strategy can lead towards a more holistic view of a city, not only as a physical place, but also as a dynamic community, revealing its origins, development and patterns of social and economic activity. Our argument is made with reference to the research design, methodology and results of the first three seasons of fieldwork at the city of Olynthos, carried out by the Olynthos Project.
- Subjects :
- 010506 paleontology
Archeology
History
060102 archaeology
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Scalar (physics)
06 humanities and the arts
Ancient Greek
01 natural sciences
Raising (linguistics)
language.human_language
Multidisciplinary approach
Argument
Geophysical survey (archaeology)
Human settlement
language
Regional science
0601 history and archaeology
Sociology
Classics
Built environment
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20452403 and 00682454
- Volume :
- 112
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Annual of the British School at Athens
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........21d6c1501cb323e220dbd9052b6f99ae