Revisiting the Submerged Settlement at Methoni: Current and Ongoing Research of the Methoni Bay (Greece) Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Heritage Project

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Methoni Bay, in the Southwest corner of the Peloponnese, Greece, provides an excellent case study for research into how cultural landscapes interact with natural landscapes. The aim of the University of Patras – University of California, San Diego Methoni Bay Paleoenvironmetnal and Cultural Heritage Project is to build upon previous research at the submerged Middle Bronze Age (ca 2050-1680 BCE) settlement and surroundings by combining current and previous settlement data with high-resolution environmental datasets. Using non-invasive methods in both shallow marine geophysics and 3D documentation combined with sub-surface and coastal sediment coring, our team aims to produce datasets that shed light on the submerged prehistoric landscape. The importance of Methoni from Late Antiquity helps support the call for further research into the prehistoric components of the submerged landscape, and this work will provide context for the establishment of a marine component to the existing cultural heritage district at Methoni.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow