Landscape Archaeology in Thessaly (LAiT)

色萨利景观考古学 (LAiT)

• 批准号: 532768457
• 负责人: Dr. Agathe Reingruber
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/532768457?language=en
• 关键词: Landscape; Archaeology; Thessaly; LAiT

One of the great challenges of our generation of researchers is the localisation of endangered but still unrecognised archaeological sites and their preservation. Not only as a result of modern agriculture, but also due to climate change, the destruction of monuments has increased greatly nowadays. Temporary prehistoric settlements that leave only thin deposits, so-called flat settlements, are particularly at risk. These have not yet been systematically investigated in Thessaly, as it is rather the meter-high settlement mounds (magoules) spanning several periods, that attract international research interest. To fill this gap in knowledge, interdisciplinary studies are foreseen, involving an international team consisting of prehistoric archaeologists and natural scientists. In our approach we will use non- or low-invasive methods in order to study a well-defined area in north-eastern Thessaly diachronically (ca. 6500 to 3200 BC). All acquired data will be merged in a Geographic Information System (GIS). In a first step, the already known settlements will be recorded three-dimensionally and in a second step they will be investigated in an interdisciplinary approach together with the sites discovered by systematic intensive surveys. With the help of geophysical prospections, we will generate settlement images at six selected sites from different prehistoric periods. We also want to establish the relationship of prehistoric settlements to water bodies (which have dried up today). The Thessalian Plain is drained by the Pinios river system: A stretch of this river runs in a S-N direction through a shallow depression that was filled by Lake Nessonis in ancient times. Using tomographies and boreholes, we will test our working hypothesis that a lake extended here in prehistoric times as well, and that settlements were founded near its shores. By means of extensive surveys, we turn our attention to a group of objects on the mountain slopes that has not been scientifically studied so far: the cupmarked stones. These cannot be dated with certainty, and their function and relationship to the prehistoric settlements is also unknown. In addition, we want to use raw material analyses to find out how intensively the communities from the different areas of Eastern Thessaly were in exchange and whether or how networks changed in a diachronic perspective. These evaluations will be carried out in the context of a relative and absolute chronological framework that has already been partly worked out on the basis of ceramic analyses and radiocarbon dates, but which still needs to be further refined. Supplemented with results of earlier research, it will be possible to better grasp both settlement behavior in prehistoric times and how prehistoric communities reacted to natural changes in the environment (and ultimately climate) and adapted or changed as a society. This would provide a new perspective on prehistoric settlement in north-eastern Thessaly.

我们这一代研究人员面临的巨大挑战之一是濒危但仍未被承认的考古遗址的本地化及其保护。不仅是现代农业的结果，而且由于气候变化，如今古迹的破坏大大增加。只留下稀薄矿藏的临时史前定居点，即所谓的平坦定居点，面临的风险尤其大。这些尚未在塞萨利得到系统的调查，因为吸引国际研究兴趣的是跨越几个时期的一米高的聚落土丘(Magoule)。为了填补这一知识空白，预计将进行跨学科研究，由史前考古学家和自然科学家组成的国际团队参与其中。在我们的方法中，我们将使用非侵入性或低侵入性的方法，以历时方式研究塞萨利东北部定义明确的地区(约公元前6500年至公元前3200年)。所有获得的数据将合并到一个地理信息系统(GIS)中。在第一步中，将对已知的定居点进行三维记录，在第二步中，将以跨学科的方法与通过系统密集调查发现的遗址一起进行调查。在地球物理勘探的帮助下，我们将在选定的六个地点生成不同史前时期的聚落图像。我们还希望建立史前聚落与水体(今天已经干涸)之间的关系。塞萨利亚平原被皮尼奥斯河系排干：这条河的一段沿着S-N的方向流经一个浅洼地，在古代被尼索尼斯湖填满。利用断层扫描和钻孔，我们将检验我们的工作假设，即史前时代也有一个湖泊延伸到这里，并且在它的海岸附近建立了定居点。通过广泛的调查，我们将注意力转向了山坡上迄今尚未进行科学研究的一组物体：杯状石头。它们的年代无法确定，它们的功能和与史前聚落的关系也是未知的。此外，我们希望使用原材料分析来找出来自东部塞萨利不同地区的社区交换的密集程度，以及网络是否或如何在历时角度上发生变化。这些评价将在相对和绝对时间框架的背景下进行，该框架已部分根据陶瓷分析和放射性碳测年制定，但仍需进一步完善。辅以早期研究的结果，将有可能更好地掌握史前时代的聚落行为，以及史前社区如何对环境(最终是气候)的自然变化做出反应，并作为一个社会适应或改变。这将为东北塞萨利的史前定居提供一个新的视角。