Project Panormos: Reading List

The Region and its Sites

Panormos

• Project Panormos, project webpage. → view

Didyma

• Didyma-Branchidai, placeholder website. → view

• Kulte im Kult, project website. → view

• Borg, G. and Borg, B.E. (2003) From Small Quarries to Large Temples - The Enigmatic Source of Limestone for the Apollo Temple at Didyma, W-Anatolia. Lazzarini (eds.), Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone. ASMOSIA VI, Venice: 427-436.

Tavşan Adası

• Tavşan Adası, Archäologische Untersuchungen der Insel Tavşan Adası an der Westküste der Türkei, project website. → view

Miletos

• Ausgrabungen in Milet, project website. → view

Ionia

• Greaves, A. M. (2010) The Land of Ionia: Society and Economy in the Archaic Period. Chichester/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Survey methodology

Methodology and theory

• Ammerman, A. (1981) ‘Surveys and Archaeological Research’, in: Annual Review of Anthropology 10: 63-88.
• Athanassopoulos, Effie F., & LuAnn Wandsnider, eds. 2004. Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes: Current Issues. University of Pennsylvania Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fj3rg. [Edited collection]
• Alcock, S.E. & Cherry, J.F., 2004. Side-by-side survey: Comparative regional studies in the Mediterranean World. Oxford: Oxbow. [Esp. Introduction; chs. by Davis, Given]
• Bevan, A., & Conolly, J., 2004. GIS, archaeological survey, and landscape archaeology on the island of Kythera, Greece. Journal of Field Archaeology, 29(½), 123–138.
• Bevan, A., & Conolly, J. 2009. Modelling spatial heterogeneity and nonstationarity in artifact-rich landscapes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 956–964.
• Bintliff, J., 1997. Regional Survey, Demography, and the Rise of Complex Societies in the Ancient Aegean: Core-Periphery, Neo-Malthusian, and Other Interpretive Models. Journal of Field Archaeology, 24(1), pp.1–38. Bintliff, J., 2005. Human impact, land‐use history, and the surface archaeological record: A case study from Greece. Geoarchaeology, 20(2), pp.135–147.
• Bintliff, J., Dickinson, I., Howard, P. & Snograss, A. 2000. Deconstructing ‘The Sense of Place’? Settlement systems, field survey, and the historic record: A case-study from Central Greece. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 66, pp. 123-149.
• Bintliff, J., & Howard, P. 1999. The hidden landscape of prehistoric Greece. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 12(2), 139–168.
• Bintliff, J. & Snodgrass, A., 1988. Off-Site Pottery Distributions: A Regional and Interregional Perspective. Current Anthropology, 29(3), pp.506–513.
• Caraher, W. R., Nakassis, D., & Pettigrew, D. 2006. Siteless survey and intensive data collection in an artifact-rich environment: case studies from the Eastern Corinthia, Greece. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 19(1), 7–43.

• Cherry, J., 1983, Frogs around the pond: perspectives in current archaeological survey projects, in: Keller, D. & D. Rupp (eds.), Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean Area (BAR International Series 155), Oxford, pp. 375-416.
• Cherry, J. 2003, Archaeology beyond the site: regional survey and its future, in: Leventhal, R. & J. Papadopoulos (eds.), Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology: Old World and New World Perspectives, Los Angeles, pp. 137-60. Fentress, E., 2000, What are we counting for?, in: Francovich, R., Patterson, H. & G. Barker (eds.), The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes 5: Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages, Oxford, pp. 44-52.
• Dunnell, R.C. & Dancey, W.S., 1983. The Siteless Survey: A Regional Scale Data Collection Strategy. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, 6, pp.267–287.
• Gallant, T. W. 1986. “Background noise” and site definition: a contribution to survey methodology. Journal of Field Archaeology, 13(4), 403–418.
• Given, M., H. Corley, and L. Sollars. 2007. Joining the dots: continuous survey, routine practice and the interpretation of a Cypriot landscape. Internet Archaeology 20. http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue20/4/index.html
• Millett, M., Pasquinucci, M., & Trement, F. 2000. The comparison of surface and stratified artifact assemblages. In G. Barker & D. Mattingly (Eds.), Non-destructive techniques applied to landscape archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow.
• Odell, G. & Cowan, F., 1987. Estimating Tillage Effects on Artifact Distributions. American Antiquity, 52(3), p.456.
• Sullivan, A.P., Mink, P.B. & Uphus, P.M., 2007. Archaeological Survey Design, Units of Observation, and the Characterization of Regional Variability. American Antiquity, 72(2), pp.322–333.
• Stewart, S.T., Hitchings, P.M.N., Bikoulis, P. and Banning, E.B. 2017. Novel survey methods shed light on prehistoric exploration in Cyprus, Antiquity, 91(355). doi: 10.15184/aqy.2016.235.

• Wandsnider, L., & Camilli, E. L. (1992). The character of surface archaeological deposits and its influence on survey accuracy. Journal of Field Archaeology, 19, 169–188.

• MAGIS, an inventory of regional survey projects in the greater Mediterranean region. http://cgma.depauw.edu/MAGIS/

• SurveyArchaeology.eu, an open knowledge base and communication platform for education and research regarding archaeological field-survey in the Mediterranean. http://www.surveyarchaeology.eu/

Selected publications based on survey projects in the Aegean

University of Minnesota Messenia Expedition (UMME), 1958-69: - McDonald, W.A. & Rapp, G., 1972. The Minnesota Messenia Expedition: Reconstructing a Bronze Age Regional Environment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Classics W B1 46] Simpson, R.H., 2014. Mycenaean Messenia and the kingdom of Pylos. INSTAP Academic Press, Philadelphia [Classics W C1 121]

Southern Argolid Exploration Project, 1950, 1972-82, esp. 1979-82: - Jameson, M.H., Runnels, C.N. & can Andel, T.H., 1994. A Greek countryside: the southern Argolid from prehistory to the present day. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. [Classics VV B3 54] Runnels, C.N., Pullen, D.J. & Langdon, S.H., 1995. Artifact and assemblage: the finds from a regional survey of the southern Argolid, Greece., Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. [Classics W D1 60]

Melos Survey, 1976–: - Renfrew, C. & Wagstaff, J.M., 1982. An island polity : the archaeology of exploitation in Melos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

N. Keos Survey, 1983–4: - Cherry, J.F., Davis, J.L., & Mantazourani, E. 1991. Landscape archaeology as long-term history : northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands from earliest settlement until modern times. Los Angeles: Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles. [esp. pp3-54] [Classics W C1 44]

Cambridge-Bradford Boeotia Survey, 1979–86, 1989-94, 2000-11, 2012-17: - Bintliff, J.L., Howard, P & Snodgrass, A., 2007. Testing the hinterland : the work of the Boeotia survey (1989-1991) in the southern approaches to the city of Thespiai. Cambridge : Athens: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research ; British School at Athens. [Classics VV A3 35] - http://www.boeotiaproject.org/site/project-history

Nemea Valley Archaeological Project (NVAP), 1984–9: - Cherry et al., 1988. Archaeological Survey in an Artifact-Rich Landscape: A Middle Neolithic Example from Nemea, Greece. American Journal of Archaeology, 92, pp.159–176. - Wright, James C. et al., 1990. The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project: a Preliminary Report. Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 59(4), pp.579–659. - http://classics.uc.edu/nvap/

Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (PRAP), 1991-5: - Davis, J.L. Bennet, D. J. and Alcock, S., 2008 [1998]. Sandy Pylos: An archaeological history from Nestor to Navarino. 2nd ed., Athens : Oxford: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. [Classics Y PYLO 1a] - Davis, J., Alcock, S., Bennet, J., Lolos, Y., & Shelmerdine, C., 1997. The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project Part I: Overview and the Archaeological Survey. Hesperia, 66(3), pp.391-494. - Zangger, E., Timpson, M., Yazvenko, S., Kuhnke, F., & Knauss, J., 1997. The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: Part II: Landscape Evolution and Site Preservation. Hesperia, 66(4), pp.549-641. - http://classics.uc.edu/prap/

Kythera Island Project (KIP), 1998-2001: - Broodbank, C. 2004. Minoanisation. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 50, pp.46-91 - Broodbank, C., & Kiriatzi, E. 2007. The First “Minoans” of Kythera Revisited: Technology, Demography, and Landscape in the Prepalatial Aegean. American Journal of Archaeology, 111(2), pp.241-274. - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/kip/

Antikythera Survey Project (ASP), 2005–8: - Bevan, A. and Conolly, J., 2013. Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes: Antikythera in Long-term Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Classics YY D1 197] Bevan, A. et al. 2013. Measuring Chronological Uncertainty In Intensive Survey Finds: a Case Study From Antikythera, Greece. Archaeometry, 55(2), 312-328. - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/directory/antikythera_bevan

Knossos Urban Landscapes Project (KULP), 2005–8: - Whitelaw, T., Bredaki, M. & Vasilakis, A., 2007. The Knossos Urban Landscape Project: investigating the long-term dynamics of an urban landscape. Archaeology International, 10, pp.28–31. - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/directory/knossos_whitelaw

Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey (EKAS), : - Tartaron, T.F. et al., The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape. Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 75(4), pp.453–523. - http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/wcaraher/EKASPage/EKASHome.html

Western Thessaly, 2014–: - Orengo, H.A. ; Krahtopoulou, A. ; Garcia-Molsosa, A. ; Palaiochoritis, K. ; Stamati, A. 2015. Photogrammetric re-discovery of the hidden long-term landscapes of western Thessaly, central Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science, 64, pp.100–109.

Selected publications based on comparative survey projects in adjacent regions

Sydney Cyprus Survey Project (SCSP), 1992–7: - Given, M., Knapp, A.B. & Coleman, D., 2003. The Sydney Cyprus survey project : social approaches to regional archaeological survey. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. [Classics VV D4 76] - http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/scspvar2001/

Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, 2000–4: - Given, M., Knapp, A.B. , Noller, J., Sollars, L. , and Kassianidou, V. 2013. Landscape and Interaction: The Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project, Cyprus. Volumes 1 & 2. London: Council for British Research in the Levant. - http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/taespahrc2007/

Sinop Regional Archaeological Project (SRAP), Black Sea, Turkey, 1996–2001, cont.: - Doonan, O.P. 2004. Sinop Landscapes: Exploring Connection in a Black Sea Hinterland. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum Press. [Not in Cambridge] - http://srap.newmedialab.cuny.edu

Cide Archaeological Project (CAP), Black Sea, Turkey, 2009–11: Düring, Bleda S. (Ed.) and Claudia Glatz (Ed.). 2016. - Kinetic Landscapes. The Cide Archaeological Project: Surveying the Turkish Western Black Sea Region. Berlin: De Gruyter Open. http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/462641 - http://www.cidearchaeology.com/cap/ 

Kea Archaeological Research Survey: -https://classics.uncg.edu/kea/

Keros Island Survey (Cambridge Keros Project): - http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/keros

Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP): - http://westernargolid.org/

Milesian Chora Survey: - http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/milet/in/chora-1.htm

Project Panormos/Milesian Landscapes Project: - http://www.projectpanormos.com/

Mesopotamia and Near East: survey theory and summaries

• Adams, R. M. (1981). Heartland of cities: surveys of ancient settlement and land use on the central floodplain of the Euphrates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Glatz, Claudia, Bleda S. Düring, Toby C. Wilkinson, et al. 2015. 4. Developing an Adaptive Field Methodology for Challenging Landscapes. In Kinetic Landscapes, Warsaw, Poland: De Gruyter Open, pp53-103.
• Markofsky, S., 2014. When Survey Goes East: Field Survey Methodologies and Analytical Frameworks in a Central Asian Context. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 21(4), pp.697–723.
• Wilkinson, Tony J., 2000. Regional Approaches to Mesopotamian Archaeology: The Contribution of Archaeological Surveys. Journal of Archaeological Research, 8(3), pp.219–267.