Timothy E. Gregory

The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Long-Term Change in the North Central Troodos, Cyprus

AbstractThe Sydney Cyprus Survey Project (SCSP) began work in the north central Troodos Mountains of Cyprus in 1992. The aim of the project is to examine the relationships among the exploitation of natural resources (especially copper mining and agriculture), the development of complex social systems, and the changes taking place in the physical landscape. This interim report puts our fieldwork and interpretation into the context of contemporary regional survey practice, and describes our approaches to methodological problems such as sampling strategies, analytical units, and field walking techniques. We present an integrated discussion of two specific areas of interest and an overview of the main results and conclusions of the project to date.

Bronze age and late antique exploitation of an islet in the Saronic Gulf, Greece

AbstractThe examination of islets in the Gulf of korinth and the Saronic Gulf has formed an important part of investigations in Greece by Ohio State University archaeologists since 1981. This work entails archaeological surface survey and topographic mapping of ancient and medieval remains. This information, supplemented by data from the southern Argolid and elsewhere in the Peloponnesos, has revealed a pattern of exploitation of marginal zones in the period from the 4th through the 7th centuries A.C., and to some extent in the Late Bronze Age or Mycenaean period (1600–1200 B.C.). Recent work has concentrated on the island of Evraionisos in the western Saronic Gulf. Surface ceramics indicate the presence of Mycenaean to Byzantine components on various parts of the island, with Late Roman material particularly abundant. Despite its lack of a natural source of drinking water, the island provided enough advantages to be used, at times heavily, from late prehistoric through early modern times. The pattern of ...

Geophysical and Surface Surveys in the Byzantine Fortress at Isthmia 1985-1986

N 1985 AND 1986, the University of California-Los Angeles and The Ohio State University excavations at Isthmia conducted geophysical and surface surveys in the Early Byzantine Fortress (Fig. 1).1 The purpose of this work was to gather evidence concerning the configuration of features in the Fortress in order to assess the level of cultural activity at Isthmia in Late Antiquity and the Mediaeval period. The present investigation makes use of surface survey more intensively than is usual in the Mediterranean area: most surveys have a regional focus, while our work applied survey techniques to the interior of a single site.2 Geophysical prospecting, by contrast, has been applied sparingly and with varying success in the Aegean;3 our particular contribution is the intensity of the investigation and the application of several survey techniques, each of which can compensate for the limitations of the other methods. The work in the Fortress is one phase of the ongoing investigation of Isthmia. Although efforts at the site have concentrated on locating and exposing the various parts of the classical Sanctuary, examination of the Byzantine remains has been more extensive than at most other major sites in Greece. The earlier work, however, was undertaken to address

The Roman Arch at Isthmia

D URING THE ROMAN IMPERIAL AGE a monumental triple arch was the principal easterly approach to the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia.) This arch was constructed, probably, in the second half of the 1st century after Christ, and its four piers were built into the Northeast Gate of the Fortress on the Hexamilion shortly after A.D. 400. The arch stood in a prominent position on a ridge overlooking the port of Schoinos, and any visitor who approached Isthmia from the north or east, either by land or by sea, would have