Papers by Giorgos Toufexis
Documenta Praehistorica, 2021
Intensive and systematic surveys in the area south of Mount Olympos and west of Mount Ossa reveal... more Intensive and systematic surveys in the area south of Mount Olympos and west of Mount Ossa revealed not only tell settlements, but also several flat sites from different prehistoric periods. For one of the settlements, namely Elateia 1, a detailed relative chronological assessment was made with the help of statistical evaluations of pottery assemblages. In addition, short-lived bone samples confirmed and more precisely defined the exact chronological position of this 10-hectare site within the Middle Neolithic period. The present study underlines the importance of statistical evaluations of complete pottery assemblages, even those obtained through survey investigations, and their significance for a better understanding of chronological, chorological and post-depositional processes.
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2021
Intensive and systematic surveys in the area south of Mount Olympos and west of Mount Ossa reveal... more Intensive and systematic surveys in the area south of Mount Olympos and west of Mount Ossa revealed not only tell settlements, but also several flat sites from different prehistoric periods. For one of the settlements, namely Elateia 1, a detailed relative chronological assessment was made with the help of statistical evaluations of pottery assemblages. In addition, short-lived bone samples confirmed and more precisely defined the exact chronological position of this 10-hectare site within the Middle Neolithic period. The present study underlines the importance of statistical evaluations of complete pottery assemblages, even those obtained through survey investigations, and their significance for a better understanding of chronological, chorological and post-depositional processes.
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2018
Thessaly in Central Greece is famous for settlement mounds (magoules) that were already partly fo... more Thessaly in Central Greece is famous for settlement mounds (magoules) that were already partly formed in the Early Neolithic period. Some of these long-lived sites grew to many metres in height during the subsequent Middle, Late and Final Neolithic periods, and were also inhabited in the Bronze Age. Such magoules served as the backbone for defining relative chronological schemes. However, their absolute dating is still a topic of debate: due to a lack of well-defined sequences, different chronological schemes have been proposed. New radiocarbon dates obtained in the last few years allow a better understanding of the duration not only of the main Neolithic periods, but also of the different phases and sub-phases.
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Open Archaeology, 2021
This article attempts to draw attention to the social choices of the earliest farming societies, ... more This article attempts to draw attention to the social choices of the earliest farming societies, evaluating new and old settlement data from the Early Neolithic of Thessaly in Greece. We examine the inhabitation of landscapes, the organisation of the inhabited spaces and the human–landscape interaction as a framework for the creation of a socialised environment. Taking into account aspects such as settlement location, duration, architecture and intra- and intersite arrangements, this study shows that the observed diversity in space and time reflects alternative modes of settlement and land use, variations in notions of permanence and continuity and different modalities of the adoption and meaning of new socioeconomic practices. This evidence challenges traditional interpretations of simplicity, homogeneity and change as being induced from outside and calls for a new reading of the Early Neolithic. We argue that the model of a single and uniform development, deriving from concepts of...
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American Journal of Archaeology, 2017
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Documenta Praehistorica
Intensive and systematic surveys in the area south of Mount Olympos and west of Mount Ossa reveal... more Intensive and systematic surveys in the area south of Mount Olympos and west of Mount Ossa revealed not only tell settlements, but also several flat sites from different prehistoric periods. For one of the settlements, namely Elateia 1, a detailed relative chronological assessment was made with the help of statistical evaluations of pottery assemblages. In addition, short-lived bone samples confirmed and more precisely defined the exact chronological position of this 10-hectare site within the Middle Neolithic period. The present study underlines the importance of statistical evaluations of complete pottery assemblages, even those obtained through survey investigations, and their significance for a better understanding of chronological, chorological and post-depositional processes.
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Open Archaeology
This article attempts to draw attention to the social choices of the earliest farming societies, ... more This article attempts to draw attention to the social choices of the earliest farming societies, evaluating new and old settlement data from the Early Neolithic of Thessaly in Greece. We examine the inhabitation of landscapes, the organisation of the inhabited spaces and the human–landscape interaction as a framework for the creation of a socialised environment. Taking into account aspects such as settlement location, duration, architecture and intra- and intersite arrangements, this study shows that the observed diversity in space and time reflects alternative modes of settlement and land use, variations in notions of permanence and continuity and different modalities of the adoption and meaning of new socioeconomic practices. This evidence challenges traditional interpretations of simplicity, homogeneity and change as being induced from outside and calls for a new reading of the Early Neolithic. We argue that the model of a single and uniform development, deriving from concepts of...
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The Human Face of Radiocarbon
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Books by Giorgos Toufexis
Eva Alram-Stern -Kostas Gallis -Giorgos Toufexis (Eds.) Platia Magoula Zarkou The Neolithic Period, 2022
The publication presents the excavation of the Neolithic settlement strata of the tell Platia Mag... more The publication presents the excavation of the Neolithic settlement strata of the tell Platia Magoula Zarkou, situated in the Peneios plain in Western Thessaly (Greece). The tell is characterized by an uninterrupted settlement sequence which according to the radiocarbon data is dated into the 6th millennium BC and includes the Middle Neolithic and early Late Neolithic of Greece. Geological and geophysical put the tell in its natural environment. They show that during the Neolithic period this part of the Peneios valley was characterized by a temporary lake, the settlement being situated at the bank of a narrow gulf. The tell was surrounded by ditches which clearly defined the settlement area. Based on stratigraphy and building development, the radiocarbon data, the tools, the ritual objects, including the well-known house model, as well as the ornaments the cultural development and change of this period is analysed. The nine building phases show an alternation of built and unbuilt areas. Clear change is seen in the character of the finds from the late Middle Neolithic onwards, which inter alia is evident in the use of raw material as well as the connected acquisition network. The house model is interpreted as a symbol of a buried household, the figurines as its inhabitants being characterized by special roles in this household.
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