In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the
Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …

The recovery, identification, and analysis of archaeobotanical remains can help address a
wide range of archaeological and historical research questions, from foodways, to the …

Grapevine and olive are thought to have been intensively cultivated during the Hellenistic
period, as part of an agrarian system which included agricultural choices specializing in the …

This paper investigates agricultural practices during the 1st millennium BCE in Greece. New
archaeobotanical data provide fresh insights on the plant economy at the urban centers of …

This chapter deals with agriculture, that is to say, that which relates to the cultivation of the
land, the conditions in which it is organized, including the breeding and keeping of animals …

Archaeobotanical studies have already been widely and successfully used in Greece for the
Neolithic to Iron Age periods, yet they were mostly omitted in Classical archaeology. This …

Agricultural economies of the Hellenistic era (323–30 bce) are poorly understood from
primary plant and animal remains despite the extent of sites and rich historical records …

The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less
familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett provides an …

Strange quarks are the lightest nonvalance quarks in the nucleon and thus the most likely
constituents to contribute to sea-quark dynamics. The study of strange-quark contributions to …

This chapter focuses on two related topics–how research using archaeological fieldwalking
is done, and what are the central factors to consider as students evaluate survey data and …