Regional stories towards a new perception of the early Greek world

From 18 to 21 June 2015 at the Saratsi Amphitheatre in Volos, an international symposium entitled “Regional stories towards a new perception of the early Greek world” is organised. The aim of the symposium is on one hand to present original overviews, mostly geographical, of the current data from the entire Greek World, dating from the 10th to the end of the 7th c. B.C., based partly on the results of the research of the members of the “ARISTEIA” project or thanks to the expertise of the invited scholars. A second aim of the symposium, is to present new evidence from important current excavation projects, thus highlighting the data published up to now. The topics of the papers are drawn from the three axis of the “ARISTEIA” research project (Settlements, Sanctuaries, Cemeteries). The regional diversities or homogeneities, the interaction between the Greek and indigenous communities, the study of the Early Greek World independently from the chronological “divide” of ca. 700 B.C., the rise of the polis, are some of the suggested lines of inquiry. The symposium is an occasion to honour an eminent scholar of the Early Iron Age, Professor Jan Bouzek.

Programme ◊ Printed Matter ◊ Travel Info

Programme

Thursday 18.06.2015

18.15-19.00 A. Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly), G. Chiotis (Athens Archaeological Society), Ch. Apostolou, T.G. Dallas (University of Thessaly)
The ARISTEIA project: ‘The Social archaeology of Early Iron Age and Early Archaic Greece’

19.00-20.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Jan Bouzek (Charles University, Prague)
From Bronze Age mythos to Iron Age logos

Friday 19.06.2015

Euboea

09.30-10.00 Xenia Charalambidou (Swiss School of Archaeology in Athens/British School at Athens)
Viewing Euboea in relation to its colonies and relevant sites in Northern Greece and South Italy-Sicily

10.00-10.30 Jan Paul Crielaard (VU University Amsterdam)
The Early Iron Age site of Karystos-Plakari (southern Euboia) and its wider context

10.30-11.00 Samuel Verdan (University of Lausanne/University of Oxford)
Means of exchange in ‘Euboean’ networks: a supra-regional story

11.00-11.30 Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv University)
East, West, or Centre? Eretria and the Euboean Network

11.30-12.00 BREAK

Attika

12.00-12.30 A. Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly), M. Mazarakis Ainian
The Oropos settlement in the early first millennium B.C. A new perception in 3D

12.30-13.00. Alexandra Alexandridou (Free University of Brussels - ULB)
A burial anatomy of the Attic kinship groups. Social complexities facing the emergence of the polis

13.00-13.30 Floris van den Eijnde (University of Utrecht)
The Areopagus oval building and Athenian ancestor worship

Cyclades

13.30-14.00 Olga Kaklamani (University of Athens)
Funerary Rituals in the Early Cyclades: the case of Thera

14.00-14.30 Stavros Paspalas (Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens)
Zagora and the wider Aegean

14.30-16.30 BREAK

Peloponnese

16.30-17.00 Afrodite Vlachou (University of Thessaly)
Ritual practices and social organization in Early Iron Age and Early Archaic Peloponnese

17.00-17.30 Anastasia Gadolou (Greek Ministry of Culture)
The formation of religious landscapes in Achaia during the early historical era (10th-7th c. B.C.): Political structures and social identities

17.30-18.00 BREAK

Bioarchaeology – Archaeometry

18.00-18.30 Katerina Trantalidou (Greek Ministry of Culture)
Active responses of Early Iron Age Aegean communities to their natural and social environment:
The evidence from the animal bone deposits

18.30-19.00 Tatiana Theodoropoulou (CNRS-UMR 7041, Maison René Ginouvès, Nanterre, Paris)
Regional stories, one sea: towards reconstructing the history/ies of fishing and marine animal exploitation in the Early Greek world

19.00-19.30 Evi Margaritis (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge/Cyprus Institute, Nicosia)
Domestic and ritual use of plants in Early Iron Age Greece

19.30-20.00 Yorgos Fakorellis (Technical University of Athens)
Radiocarbon dating of the Dark Ages in Greece: An overview

Saturday 20.06.2015

Central Greece

09.30-10.00 Zacharoula Papadopoulou (University of Thessaly)
Social organization in Central Greece during the Early Iron Age: the settlement and funerary evidence

10.00-10.30 Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier (University of Heidelberg)
The oracle sanctuary of Apollo at Abai (Kalapodi) from the Bronze to the Iron Age

Thessaly

10.30-11.00 Eleni Karouzou (University of Oxford)
Thessaly from the Protogeometric to the Early Archaic Period

11.00-11.30 Ioannis Georganas (Hellenic International Studies in the Arts)
A tale of two ‘Cities’: Volos and Pherai in the Early Iron Age

11.30-12.00 BREAK

North Greece

12.00-12.30 Stelios Andreou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Settlements in Central Macedonia in the Early Iron Age

12.30-13.00 Αnne-Ζahra Chemsseddoha (University of Toulouse)
New perspectives on the burial customs in Macedonia during the Early Iron Age

Western Greece

13.30-13.30 Stelios Damigos (Westphalian Wilhelm University of Münster)
Early Aetolia

13.30-14.00 Franziska Lang (Technical University, Darmstadt)
Early Akarnania

14.00-17.00 BREAK

Dedecanese

17.00-17.30 Maria Koutsoumpou (University of Athens)
The Dodecanese in the Early Iron Age: revisiting the evidence from sanctuaries and burials

17.30-18.00 Matteo D’Acunto (University of Napoli ‘L'Orientale’)
The Protogeometric and Geometric necropolis of Ialysos: some aspects

Asia Minor

18.00-18.30 Michael Kerschner (Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, Vienna)
Spatial development of Ephesos from ca. 1000 – ca. 670 B.C. against the background of other Early Iron Age settlements in Ionia

Sailing in the Mediterranean in the early first millenium

18.30-19.00 Yannis Nakas (University of Ioannina)
From the ‘black ships’ to the trireme. Ships and shipbuilding in the Early Iron Age Mediterranean

Sunday 21.06.2015

Crete

09.30-10.00 Antonis Kotsonas (University of Cincinnati)
Cretan and other Greek sanctuaries in the Early Iron Age:
Assessing regionalism in aspects of cult practice

10.00-10.30 Florence Gaignerot-Driessen (University of Picardie)
The rise of the polis in the Mirabello region, Crete: sites and settlement patterns (10th - 7th c. B.C.)

Cyprus

10.30-11.00 Anna Satraki (Archaeological Service, Larnaca District Museum, Cyprus)
Examining the imprint of Early Iron Age Cyprus: Regional histories at the dawn
of the first millennium B.C.

11.00-11.30 BREAK

Magna Grecia/Sicily

11.30-12.00 Sveva Savelli (Direzione Generale Archeologia, Rome)
Travelling potters and pottery from Greece to Southern Italy in the 8th and 7th c. B.C.:
the state of the question of imported Greek pottery and local productions of Greek type

12.00-12.30 Emanuele Greco (Italian Archaological School, Athens)
Poleis of Magna Graecia and Sicily; some observations

12.30-13.00 Massimo Osanna (Soprintendenza speciale per Pompei, Ercolano e Stabia)
Migration and mobility in the Iron Age Southern Italy: New approaches to cultural encounters
on the Ionian coast

13.00-14.30 BREAK

North Africa

14.30-15.00 Αlexandra Villing (British Museum, London)
Greece and Egypt - new research on early contact and exchange

Spain-West Mediterranean

15.00-15.30 Eleftheria Pappa (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Early Greek presence in the ‘Far West’: commodities, traders and their impact

Thrace-Black Sea

15.30-16.00 Elias Petropoulos (Democritus University of Thrace)
The diffusion of early (7th century) Greek pottery in the Black Sea region

16.00-17.00 FINAL DISCUSSION - CONCLUSIONS: Α. Mazarakis Ainian (University of Thessaly), J. Whitley (Cardiff University)

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Travel Info

Travel from Athens to Volos

You may travel from Athens to Volos by

  • Private car. The distance is 324km. You follow the national road towards Lamia and then towards Larissa. You leave the motorway either at “Mikrothives” junction or at “Velestino” junction.
  • Bus (KTEL). The The Public Road Transport Buses (KTEL) operates 10 scheduled services per day. The buses to Volos leave from “Liossion Bus” Terminal.
  • Train (OSE). It is not recommended to travel by train because it is slow compared to the bus. Note, that using the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) you have to change trains at Larissa (please check the standby time, as it may be long). The train departs from “Stathmos Larissis”.

Additional Info:

  • To get from the Athens Airport to the Bus Station, you get on to the Express Bus n. “X93”. The buses run every 30 minutes during the day and every hour at the night.
  • To get from the Athens airport to the Train Station, you get the “Proastiakos Train” straight to “Larissa Station” (warning: not all Proastiakos trains go to Athens, so make sure you get on the correct one) or use Metro “Line 3” up to “Syntagma” Station then change to “Line 2” and disembark to “Larissa Station”. The metro runs almost every 30 min.
  • The price of a “Taxi” to get from the Athens Airport to KTEL/or OSE it costs approximately €35 (Attention! Please note that the use of taxi for your travels cannot be covered).
Travel from Thessaloniki to Volos

You may travel from Thessaloniki to Volos by:

  • Private car. The distance is 218km. You follow the national road towards Larissa and then towards Lamia. You leave the motorway either at “Velestino” junction.
  • Bus (KTEL). The Public Road Transport Buses (KTEL) operates 8 scheduled services per day. The buses to Volos leave from “Macedonia Bus” Terminal.
  • Train (OSE). It is not recommended to travel by train because it is slow compared to the bus. Note, that using the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) you have to change trains at Larissa (please check the standby time, as it may be long). The train departs from “New Railway Station”.

Additional Info:

  • To get from the Thessaloniki Airport to the Bus Station or to the Train Station, you get on to the Bus n. “78”. The buses run almost every 30 minutes.
  • The price of a “Taxi” to get from Thessaloniki Airport to the Public Road Transport Buses (KTEL) is approxmately €25 and to Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) is respectively €15 (Attention! Please note that the use of taxi for your travels cannot be covered).

Flights directly to Volos

The new civil terminal at the military airfiled of New Anchialos has infrequent direct flights to some european airports. A bus shuttle service is available ftom the airport to the bus terminal in the city.