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The Study of Ancient Territories: Chersonesos and Metaponto: 2004 Annual Report

Carter, Joseph Coleman

This is the 2004 edition of the ICA's annual report. ICA's research focuses primarily on the chorai, or agricultural territories, that surrounded and supported ancient Greek colonial cities. Their two primary sites of research are the chora of Metaponto on the southern coast of Italy and the chora of Chersonesos on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Crimea, Ukraine. Both settings offer remarkably well-preserved ancient rural landscapes, once densely occupied by farmers and still containing abundant evidence of their homes, burial grounds, and places of worship. Because their locations were strategically important, they also contain archaeological remains from the Roman through the Byzantine eras. Through its research, ICA contributes to a fuller understanding of the settlement, economy, and culture of this previously neglected rural dimension of early western civilisation. Metaponto and Chersonesos provide a unique chance to compare rural chorai at opposite ends of the colonial Greek world, as well as a valuable opportunity to train students, foster exchanges, and generate international collaboration and good will.90p, b/w illus (Institute of Classical Archaeology at Austin, Texas 2006)

Table of Contents

1) 2004 in Retrospect (Joseph Coleman Carter, Director, Institute of Classical Archaeology); 2) Chersonesos: Excavations in the South Region of Chersonesos (Adam Rabinowitz and Larissa Sedikova); Color Plates I & II; Preliminary Report of Anthropological Research: Burials from the Chapel (Renata J. Henneberg and Denis Ponomarev); Paleoethnobotanical Investigations at Chersonesos (Galina A. Pashkevich); Faunal Material from Bezymyannaya, 1998 and 2000 (Aleksey K. Kasparov); Pre-Greek Population on the Heraclean Peninsula: Ceramic Analysis (Evelina Kravchenko); Site Conservation (Chris Cleere); Site Condition Survey (Chris Cleere and Jessica Trelogan); Object Conservation (Chris Cleere); Conservation of the Basilica (Church) Mosaic (Duygu Cleere); Conservation of the Hellenistic Stelai (Chris Cleere); Chersonesos Museum: Survey of Storage and Display Facilities (Robert Howell); Research on the Stelai and Grave Monuments from Chersonesos (Richard Posamentir and Christina Lippert); GIS Recording Methods for Conservation at Chersonesos (Jessica Trelogan); Pidtrymka Chersonesu in 2004 (Taissa Bushnell); 3) Metaponto: Field Survey of the Metapontino: Progress on Volume I (Alberto Prieto); Incorporating the Advice of Experts in GIS Analysis (Peter Dana); Activities at the Centro di Agroarchaeologia, Pantanello (Rosetta Torraco); Personnel & Publications.

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