Mediterranean Vistas, Local Experiences: An Historical Archaeology and Social History of Everyday Life on a Greek Island: Andros 16th-19th Centuries

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This paper examines the historical archaeology of everyday life using the results of KASHAP. This multidisciplinary/indterdiciplinary project  tracks the human and environmental histories of two Greek islands. One main theme is how being integrated as peripheries into major premodern empires, the Venetian Empire and the Ottoman Empires, shaped everyday life and how the transition to nation-state, which transformed the islands into a border zones, impacted society and economy. Focusing on the island of Andros and utilizing GIS analyzes and high resolution satellite images in conjunction with the results from two seasons of fieldwork (excavation and survey) and archival research, this paper analyzes the structure and use of domestic space, the rural economy, and the regional structure of field systems, terraces and settlements. Though preliminary, this paper demonstrates how adopting a multidisciplinary approach has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the historical archaeology and social history of rural Greece.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Nodes and Modes of Connectivity: Old and New World Studies on Frontiers and Borderlands   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2015

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