Chronika Project : thanks to one more training course, the Chronika project is moving forward : the issue BCH 109 (1985) is now available.
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An indispensible tool for researchers in all disciplines who wish to learn about the latest archaeological discoveries in Greece and Cyprus, Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne is a richly illustrated topographical database with a mapping feature to locate field projects within sites and regions.
Près de Mégare, Thierry Lucas (EFA/Université de Picardie Jules Verne) a mené en 2023 une nouvelle mission de relevés photogrammétriques à Pachi, sur le site de Palaiokastro, afin de pouvoir étudier les vestiges byzantins et les installations de la seconde guerre mondiale, ainsi que de mener une étude architecturale complète des blocs antiques remployés dans la maçonnerie des fortifications médiévales....
Chrysa Sofianou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi), Carl Knappett (Toronto), Andrew Shapland (Oxford) and Theotokis Theodoulou (Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities) report on the third campaign of underwater exploration at Palaikastro. This year the synergasia between the British School at Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi saw the continuation of underwater survey and mapping. Over the course of five diving days, 5.5 km were covered. The dives...
Michael Loy (Cambridge), Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Cambridge) and Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Vienna) report on the third season of the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project’s five-year research programme. Work this year focused on intensively exploring the Karlovasi basin in the northwest of Samos island (Fig. 1, Fig. 2). Five weeks were devoted to fieldwalking, with two weeks of ceramics study and ethnographic work already having taken place early in the year. Intensive field...
Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres), Nicolas Zorzin (National Cheng Kung University-Taiwan) and James Taylor (York) report on the second excavation season conducted at the Neolithic village of Toumba Serron on the eastern side of the Strymon valley of Northern Greece; a collaborative research programme between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres and the BSA. Excavation work was preempted in November (2022) by a final visit to the site...
À Kéa, Joanne Murphy, Nathalie Abell et Alexandros Laftsidis (IIHSA) ont mené une campagne d’étude du mobilier et des données issues des prospections pédestres du projet “Kea Archaeological Research Survey”. L’objectif était l’étude de la céramique, des types de pâtes communes à l’Âge du Bronze, mais également pour d’autres périodes. Une étude pétrographique et chimique des tessons a également été entreprise. Une étude de la céramique hellénistique et...
Dans la région entre Érétrie et Amarynthos, Sylavian Fachard (ESAG), Angeliki Simossi (Éphorie des antiquités d’Eubée) et Chloé Chezeaux ont mené en 2023 une troisième campagne du projet « Eretria Amarynthos Survey Project » (ou ESAP) au cours de laquelle on a complété l’exploration de la région entre Érétrie et la vallée du Sarantapotamos. Depuis 2021, 189 structures archéologiques ont été recensées et 107 000 tessons de surface et fragments de tuiles ainsi...
À l’Artémision d’Amarynthos, Sylvian Fachard (ESAG) et Angeliki Simossi (Éphorie des antiquités d’Eubée) ont dirigé en 2023 la dernière campagne de fouilles prévue dans le programme d’exploration du sanctuaire. D’autres sondages sur les flancs et au pied de la colline de Palaioekklisies ont poursuivi l’exploration de vestiges plus anciens. La fouille de 2023 s’est portée sur le temple archaïque dont la construction remonte au VIIIe s. av. J.-C. L’acquisition d’un...
À Éleon antique, Brendan Burke (Institut Canadien en Grèce/University of Victoria) a dirigé en 2023 une nouvelle campagne de fouilles, au cours de laquelle neuf nouveaux sondages ont été ouverts et un sondage a été exploré davantage afin de déterminer la date de la fortification près de l’entrée de l’acropole. La recherche s’est concentrée sur la partie Nord du bâtiment appelé « Blue Stone Structure » et on a repris la fouille dans le sondage NWA1 b, où l'on...
Field and geoarchaeological survey in Megalopolis. The Ephorate of the Palaeoanthropology and Speleology, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, under the management of Dr E. Panagopoulou-Karambela (EPS), Dr P. Karkana (ASCSA) and Prof. K. Harvati (University of Tübingen), report the results of the five-year field and geoarchaeological survey in Megalopolis in Arcadia. The finds from the five, newly discovered places in the lignite mines of Megalopolis...
Georgios Anastasakis and Georgios Lyras, (National Kapodistrian University of Athens) report on work carried out at Katharo Plateau on the Dikti mountain to the east of Crete in July 2023 (ID 18571; 11675). Fossils of 10 dwarf hippopotamuses were found. These animals were endemic to Crete and their fossils date back to 200,000 - 300,000 years ago. The pygmy hippopotamus, or pygmy hippo, is a small member of the hippopotamid family. Fossils of other endemic animals have been found...
Irini Skiadaresi (Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and Islands) reports on excavations at 8 Diamanti Street, in Neo Phaleron. An ongoing rescue excavation has so far yielded findings dated from the Classical to the late Roman times (fig.1). The findings include one stone-built enclosure from Roman times, as inferred from the excavated pottery. In addition, excavation revealed three wells, two from the Roman period and one dated from the Classical to the Hellenistic times, based on the...
Amygdalia Andreou reports on a collaboration between the Universities of Ioannina and Thessaly, under the direction of Alexandra Alexandridou and Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian, and the Ephorate of of Antiquities of Piraeus & Islands. This is the third of a 5-year systematic excavation project at the low hill of Lathouriza, in the region of Vari in Attica (fig.30). The project aims at reexamining and excavating the place, which was excavated in the summer of 1939, by the...