The Histria Multiscalar Archaeological Project (2018–2022): Multidisciplinary Research and Consilience at the Mouth of the Danube

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper reports on the results of the first four seasons of excavation of the Histria Multiscalar Archaeological Project (HMAP) at the Greek and Roman site of Histria, on the Black Sea coast of Romanian Dobrogea south of the Danube delta. Histria was one of the earliest Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast and played a fundamental role in cultural interaction between Greeks, local populations, nomadic groups from the steppe, and eventually Roman settlers across its 1,200-year history. The material record of the site and its hinterland reflects responses to both environmental and political challenges, ranging from major coastline changes to conflict or accommodation with new groups arriving in the Danube borderlands. We describe the application of a range of research methods, including multi-isotope analysis, archaeogenetics, geophysical prospection, and bioarchaeology, to the reconstruction of the history of an area of the urban center of Histria that served as residential space in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, as a ceramic production center in the fourth century BCE, and as part of the city’s extramural cemetery after the contraction of the urban core during the Roman period (second–sixth century CE). The paper includes images of human remains.

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• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37376.0