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Mediterranean survey and the city

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Bintliff  and
Anthony Snodgrass
John Bintliff
Affiliation:
School of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP
Anthony Snodgrass
Affiliation:
Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
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Abstract

The Mediterranean, and especially Greece, provides fine conditions for field-survey – long and intense human occupation, good surface exposure, and distinctive, diagnostic ceramics. Where the Classical authors are conspicuously reticent about the countryside, field-survey can provide a rural picture, as well as the settlement patterns of prehistory. Here, the methods of field-survey return from the countryside to look at the cities, formerly the preserve of the excavator.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 234 , March 1988 , pp. 57 - 71
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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