The aim of this paper is not to rehearse the continuing debates concerning the archaeology of so-... more The aim of this paper is not to rehearse the continuing debates concerning the archaeology of so-called 'Dark Age Greece', but rather to situate the post-classical archaeology of Greece before the 'revival' of the 10th and 11th centuries within the wider Byzantine world, particularly in comparison with the early-medieval archaeologies of the adjacent nation states of Bulgaria and Turkey and also as part of post-Roman archaeologies of northwestern Europe. The paper will review a range of differing perspectives from the varying contributions of excavation, survey archaeology, ceramic chronologies, numismatics and standing monuments. In addition it aims to consider those approaches derived from an increasing awareness and concern for environmental history and especially the greater definition of episodes of rapid climate change and their potential significance for a fuller understanding of the broader history of the Byzantine world. Finally we need to consider how far the archaeology of Byzantine Greece, and of the wider lands of the Byzantine empire, forms part of a regional/national archaeological narrative, or is an aspect of both a European medieval agenda and represents part of the long-term archaeologies of the eastern Mediterranean. Keywords Byzantine – Dark Age – Slavs – environment – churches. The end of the classical world witnessed some of the most profound changes in the long-term history and material culture of Greece and the Islands. From 550 to 700 AD historians and archaeologists have recognised a vertiginous collapse of late-Roman provincial structures, urban settlements and trading networks, which only emerge as the newly configured Byzantine 'themes' from the later 7th and 9th centuries AD. There are few regions where the end of classical urbanism and settlement appears as abrupt as in the southern Balkan provinces of the eastern Roman empire. After 600 AD in the great triangle of land from the lower Danube to the southern tips of the Peloponnese there was 'closure' and with few exceptions , it has been argued, the writ of the New Rome had expired and for many 'classical cities' there was an abrupt end, an almost paleontological extinction.
Les deux grandes villes de Mediterranee orientale, Constantinople et Alexandrie, sont connues pou... more Les deux grandes villes de Mediterranee orientale, Constantinople et Alexandrie, sont connues pour le nombre important de citernes antiques et medievales qui y sont encore conservees. A partir de r...
The aim of this paper is not to rehearse the continuing debates concerning the archaeology of so-... more The aim of this paper is not to rehearse the continuing debates concerning the archaeology of so-called 'Dark Age Greece', but rather to situate the post-classical archaeology of Greece before the 'revival' of the 10th and 11th centuries within the wider Byzantine world, particularly in comparison with the early-medieval archaeologies of the adjacent nation states of Bulgaria and Turkey and also as part of post-Roman archaeologies of northwestern Europe. The paper will review a range of differing perspectives from the varying contributions of excavation, survey archaeology, ceramic chronologies, numismatics and standing monuments. In addition it aims to consider those approaches derived from an increasing awareness and concern for environmental history and especially the greater definition of episodes of rapid climate change and their potential significance for a fuller understanding of the broader history of the Byzantine world. Finally we need to consider how far the archaeology of Byzantine Greece, and of the wider lands of the Byzantine empire, forms part of a regional/national archaeological narrative, or is an aspect of both a European medieval agenda and represents part of the long-term archaeologies of the eastern Mediterranean. Keywords Byzantine – Dark Age – Slavs – environment – churches. The end of the classical world witnessed some of the most profound changes in the long-term history and material culture of Greece and the Islands. From 550 to 700 AD historians and archaeologists have recognised a vertiginous collapse of late-Roman provincial structures, urban settlements and trading networks, which only emerge as the newly configured Byzantine 'themes' from the later 7th and 9th centuries AD. There are few regions where the end of classical urbanism and settlement appears as abrupt as in the southern Balkan provinces of the eastern Roman empire. After 600 AD in the great triangle of land from the lower Danube to the southern tips of the Peloponnese there was 'closure' and with few exceptions , it has been argued, the writ of the New Rome had expired and for many 'classical cities' there was an abrupt end, an almost paleontological extinction.
Les deux grandes villes de Mediterranee orientale, Constantinople et Alexandrie, sont connues pou... more Les deux grandes villes de Mediterranee orientale, Constantinople et Alexandrie, sont connues pour le nombre important de citernes antiques et medievales qui y sont encore conservees. A partir de r...
Byzantine Water and Engineering in Constantinople and Thessaloniki: new results and approaches
Βυ... more Byzantine Water and Engineering in Constantinople and Thessaloniki: new results and approaches Βυζαντινή ύδρευση και μηχανική στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και τη Θεσσαλονίκη: νέα δεδομένα και προσεγγίσεις
Stephanos Dragoumis Auditorium, Museum of Byzantine Civilization, Thessaloniki Αμφιθέατρο Στέφανος Δραγούμης, Μουσείο Βυζαντινού Πολιτισμού, Θεσσαλονίκη
Saturday 20 May 2017, start 9 a.m. Σάββατο 20 Μαΐου 2017, έναρξη: 9 π.μ.
The presentations will be in English and there will be simultaneous translation available Οι ανακοινώσεις θα γίνουν στα αγγλικά με σύγχρονη μετάφραση στα ελληνικά.
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N. Burkhardt, Historische Zeitschrift, 2019, Vol.309(1), pp.165-168
P. Maranzana, American Journal of Archaeology, 4/2019, Vol.123(2)
https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/3856
E. Zanini, Medioevo Greco 19, 2019, 453-455
https://www.academia.edu/41221431/Reviev_of_Efthymios_Rizos_ed._New_Cities_in_Late_Antiquity._Documents_and_Archaeology_Turnhout_2017
M. Sartre, in Syria 96 (2019)
https://journals.openedition.org/syria/8971
Βυζαντινή ύδρευση και μηχανική στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και τη Θεσσαλονίκη: νέα δεδομένα και προσεγγίσεις
Stephanos Dragoumis Auditorium, Museum of Byzantine Civilization, Thessaloniki
Αμφιθέατρο Στέφανος Δραγούμης, Μουσείο Βυζαντινού Πολιτισμού, Θεσσαλονίκη
Saturday 20 May 2017, start 9 a.m.
Σάββατο 20 Μαΐου 2017, έναρξη: 9 π.μ.
The presentations will be in English and there will be simultaneous translation available
Οι ανακοινώσεις θα γίνουν στα αγγλικά με σύγχρονη μετάφραση στα ελληνικά.