posted on 2018-09-27, 11:43authored byD. R. Stewart
When the Sikyon Survey Project began fieldwork in 2004, relatively few urban
centres in the Mediterranean had been the targets of intensive archaeological field
survey. The reasons for this are relatively straightforward and have been documented
elsewhere, but essentially most large-scale urban sites had either been early targets of
excavation, or lay beneath modern settlements.
1 Those sites that had seen some early
archaeological surface survey during the ‘New Wave’ of survey that swept the
Mediterranean in the 1980s and 1990s2 often exhibited an architectural or
topographical focus; these include Palaikastro in Crete, the old survey of Tanagra in
Boeotia, Peñ
aflor in southern Spain, and Kythnos in the Cyclades.3 So while cities
have long been the principal focus of archaeological research in the classical world,
this research has most often followed the antiquarian tradition of documenting
monuments, sites, and features mentioned in textual sources, seeking out
architecturally noteworthy structures from an architectural or art-historical viewpoint,
or conducting targeted excavation of single buildings or parts thereof.
History
Citation
Stewart, DR, Sikyon’s Contribution to Survey Methodology, ed. Lolos, Y, 'The Sikyon Survey Project, 2004-2010', American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Archaeology and Ancient History/Core Staff
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Published in
Stewart
Publisher
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
issn
TBA
Acceptance date
2015-08-01
Copyright date
2019
Publisher version
TBA
Notes
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