Archaeology of the Ionian Sea

Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood is Director of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens. She was formerly Curator of the Classical Museum, and lecturer in Greek archaeology at University College Dublin. Her main research interest is the Greek Bronze Age and her fieldwork has focused on the island of Kefalonia. She is author of The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (Liverpool University Press, 1999). Christina Papoulia completed her PhD at the University of Crete in 2018. Her academic research focuses on the Greek Stone Age, lithic technology and the diachronic interplay between human communities and the sea. Between 2016-2019 she served as Assistant Director of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens.

Contributors

Preface

Introduction

 

Part A. Island Archaeology

Comparative perspectives in ‘island archaeology’: a view from the Ionian Sea

Helen Dawson

 

Part B. Prehistory

1. Lithics as diachronic proxies for the circulation of people and ideas in the dynamic Ionian landscape

Christina Papoulia

2. Prehistoric settlement in the Inner Ionian Sea Archipelago and its Ionian island connections

Nena Galanidou, Maria Gatsi, Olympia Vikatou, Antonis Vasilakis, Catherine Morgan, Jeannette Forsén, Vivian Staikou, Christina Papoulia and Panagiotis Zervoudakis

3. Palaeolithic chipped stone industries from Zakynthos, Ionian islands, Greece. Interpreting the new evidence within the western Greek and Adriatic context

Stefanos Ligkovanlis and Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis

4. Beyond the horizon. Stone artefacts and social networks in Late Neolithic Drakaina Cave, Kefalonia island, western Greece

Georgia Stratouli, Tasos Bekiaris and Vasilios Melfos

5. Evidence of settlements on Kefalonia during the Final Neolithic and the Early Helladic period

Andreas Sotiriou

6. The communal ceramic traditions of prehistoric Ithaca

Areti Pentedeka, Catherine Morgan and Andreas Sotiriou

7. The Early and Middle Bronze Age in the Ionian Sea. New evidence from Zakynthos

Gert Jan Van Wijngaarden, Ayla Krijnen, Nienke Pieters and Corien Wiersma

8. Aitoloakarnania and the Ionian Sea in the Εarly Bronze Age: a history of interaction

Venediktos Lanaras

 

Part C. The Late Bronze Age

9. Islands in the stream: a maritime perspective of the south-central Ionian islands in the Late Bronze Age

Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood

10. The palaeo-geographic development of Livadi Marsh, Paliki: implications for the detection of an ancient harbour and anthropogenic settlement

Peter Styles, George Apostolopoulos, John R. Underhill, John Crawshaw, Olympia Vikatou and Eleni Papafloratou

11. The Archaeological Shoreline Research Project on the cultural semantics of coasts: the promontory of Kapros, southeast Kefalonia, in the Bronze Age

Evyenia Yiannouli

12. Diverging trajectories within the west Mycenaean koine: the evidence from Kefalonia

Odysseas Metaxas

13. Migrants, refugees and social restructuring in Late Helladic Kefalonia

Ioannis Voskos

14. The nature of warfare in western Greece and the Ionian islands during the Late Bronze Age

Thanasis J. Papadopoulos

15. The Ionian-Adriatic interface as a landscape of mobility

Francesco Iacono and Riccardo Guglielmino

 

Appendix: Continuity in the material culture of Kefalonia: from the Late Bronze Age to the historical period in Drakaina cave by Agathi Karadima