Survey-Archäologie

About this book

This volume dedicated to Oscar Belvedere for his 70th birthday presents the contributions of a colloquium of the Universities of Göttingen and Palermo at Villa Vigoni on Lake Como from 30th March to 2nd April 2015. It contains an introduction, abstracts, and 16 articles organised by chapters on methodology, historical interpretation, GIS and geophysics, mountain surveys, pottery surveys, intra site surveys, archaeo-forecasting, and landscape models. In detail there are papers on surveys in Italy between ancient topography and landscape archaeology, surveys at Heraclea Lucania, empty spaces and empty phases within Mediterranean landscapes, the archaeological map of Hierapolis / Phrygia, limitations and potential of surveys in southern Italian mountains, the Monti Sicani mountains in contrast to the plains of Gela, pottery surveys in Sicily in general, in the hinterland of Agrigentum, at Contessa Entellina / Sicily, Caulonia / Calabria, and northern Africa, intra site surveys at Finziade / Sicily, Sofiana / Sicily, Skotoussa / Thessaly, Metropolis / Ionia, Ephesus, Iasos / Caria, and Antinopolis / Egypt, archaeo-forecasting for the Greek colony of Himera, and a landscape model für Tyana / Cappadocia.