Don’t miss this new webinar session of the series ‘Recent Advances in the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean’, managed by GIAP researchers!
They reflect on their current research interests and aim to provide examples of leading research that open up new horizons in landscape, computational and palaeoenvironmental archaeology, and bioarchaeology.
Session#5 will be hold next Wednesday, May 19th, 2021, at 18 h CEST.
‘The many wonders of the Kambos: revisiting the cultural landscapes of western Thessaly, central Greece‘
Dr Athanasia (Nancy) Krahtopoulou, Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece)
Webinar will be held online, at this link. Open to public!
Abstract:
This presentation summarises some of the fresh, impressive, and far-reaching results of the ongoing multidisciplinary landscape project ‘Long Time, No See: Land reclamation and the cultural record of central-western Thessaly, central Greece’. Our research has successfully tied together historical aerial and satellite imagery, archaeomorphological analysis, extensive and intensive field survey, material culture analysis, geoarchaeological, palaeoenvironmental and bioarchaeological studies, written and ethno-historical information. At first it demonstrates that the scanty, previous knowledge of the archaeology of the area reflects localised Holocene alluviation, dramatic modern anthropogenic disturbances and the little amount of research invested in western Thessaly in the past, and secondly that the central-western Thessalian plain was a densely occupied and constructed landscape since the earliest phases of the Neolithic.
Dr Athanasia (Nancy) Krahtopoulou holds a permanent position at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece) and she currently works at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa in the Thessaly region. She is a specialised geoarchaeologist, yet her research spans from micromorphological analysis of sites to the large-scale exploration of past cultural landscapes. Since 2014, Dr Krahtopoulou is collaborating with ICAC for the project Long Time, No see: Land Reclamation and the Cultural Record of Central-Western Plain of Thessaly.
