Abstract

The last three decades have witnessed a period of growing archaeological activity in Greece that have enhanced our awareness of the diversity and variability of ancient communities. New sites offer rich datasets from many aspects of material culture that challenge traditional perceptions and suggest complex interpretations of the past. This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula.

Evita Kalogiropoulou is a Adjunct Lecturer of archaeology at the School of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, at the University of Volos, Greece. She is an archaeologist specialised in the architectural features involved with cooking practices, spatial analysis and settlement studies in the Greek Neolithic. She did her BA and MA degree at the University of Crete in Greece and she completed her doctoral diploma at Cardiff University in U.K. She is the author of several papers, and she is involved in various international projects in Greece as an expert at the study of cooking facilities, and the social interfaces developed around cooking practices.

Tuna Kalayci is a Marie Sklodowska Curie individual fellow at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali (CNR-IBAM). He is a remote sensing archaeologist focusing on production landscapes, landscapes of movement, and urban landscapes. He is the assistant director of two field projects in Turkey and a member of the Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) scientific committee.

Evagelia Karimali is a prehistoric archaeologist (Ph.D. Boston University), with specialization at lithic technology. She has been an external researcher at FORTH. She has studied and published several articles on Aegean and Mediterranean lithic collections (Platia Magoula Zarkou, Orgozinos, Pefkakia and other Neolithic Thessalian sites; Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea; Halai, Lokris).

Apostolos Sarris is Director of Research at the GeoSat ReSeArch Lab of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Adjunct Professor at the Cyprus University of Technology and Research Associate of the Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago. He has organized and participated in more than 220 geophysical/satellite remote sensing/GIS projects in Greece, U.S.A., Cyprus, Hungary, Albania, Italy, Turkey and Egypt & participated in 90 Greek and International/European large-scale research projects.