Michael Lane
Associate Professor of Greek Archaeology, UMBC
Phone: +1 410 455-2979
Address: Department of Ancient Studies
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Performing Arts & Humanities Bldg, Rm 449
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
U.S.A.
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Phone: +1 410 455-2979
Address: Department of Ancient Studies
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Performing Arts & Humanities Bldg, Rm 449
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
U.S.A.
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or LH) texts in the Linear B script, used on Crete and
mainland Greece and dating to about 1390 to 1190 BC,
can be used in conjunction with ethno-archaeological data
to model the topography of economic transactions was
recently investigated with fieldwork in central Greece.
Previously calculated parameters of the dimensions and
organisation of land plots recorded in the Linear B
archives informed a methodology for discovering a
comparable system of fields under suitable conditions in
the Aegean. The AROURA project, that formed the basis
for this article, identified the Kopaic Basin in northern
Boiotia as a suitable study region. Since the end of the last
ice age, it has contained a shallow lake with seasonally
fluctuating wetland margins, except in the modern era,
when it was thoroughly drained, and LH, when it was
partially drained, and dykes protected polders of dry land
from floods. One of these polders encloses the colossal
fortress of Glas, whose storehouses contained thousands
of metric tonnes of wheat, indicating extensive cultivation
nearby. The polder also displays expansive traces of a
premodern landscape beneath the present plough soil.
AROURA executed a program of magnetometry, ground-truthed
with soil profiling, over 60 ha of land selected
from inside the polder around Glas. This fieldwork
revealed evidence of canals connected to rivers that were
diverted during the LH. The canals appear to feed a
network of irrigated fields, particularly to the west of Glas
near the polder’s dyke. These plots are evidently demarcated
by low levees made of lake sediment and parallel
ditches. Their size and configuration conform to the topographical
model, and radiocarbon and luminescence dates
corroborate their already circumstantially probable attribution
to the LH. These discoveries raise new questions
concerning the process of agricultural intensification and
state formation in LH Greece, particularly concerning the
origin and history of relevant hydraulic technologies.
methodologies used, presents results, and draws conclusions about the trajectory of local social complexity compared with other parts of the Aegean.
or LH) texts in the Linear B script, used on Crete and
mainland Greece and dating to about 1390 to 1190 BC,
can be used in conjunction with ethno-archaeological data
to model the topography of economic transactions was
recently investigated with fieldwork in central Greece.
Previously calculated parameters of the dimensions and
organisation of land plots recorded in the Linear B
archives informed a methodology for discovering a
comparable system of fields under suitable conditions in
the Aegean. The AROURA project, that formed the basis
for this article, identified the Kopaic Basin in northern
Boiotia as a suitable study region. Since the end of the last
ice age, it has contained a shallow lake with seasonally
fluctuating wetland margins, except in the modern era,
when it was thoroughly drained, and LH, when it was
partially drained, and dykes protected polders of dry land
from floods. One of these polders encloses the colossal
fortress of Glas, whose storehouses contained thousands
of metric tonnes of wheat, indicating extensive cultivation
nearby. The polder also displays expansive traces of a
premodern landscape beneath the present plough soil.
AROURA executed a program of magnetometry, ground-truthed
with soil profiling, over 60 ha of land selected
from inside the polder around Glas. This fieldwork
revealed evidence of canals connected to rivers that were
diverted during the LH. The canals appear to feed a
network of irrigated fields, particularly to the west of Glas
near the polder’s dyke. These plots are evidently demarcated
by low levees made of lake sediment and parallel
ditches. Their size and configuration conform to the topographical
model, and radiocarbon and luminescence dates
corroborate their already circumstantially probable attribution
to the LH. These discoveries raise new questions
concerning the process of agricultural intensification and
state formation in LH Greece, particularly concerning the
origin and history of relevant hydraulic technologies.
methodologies used, presents results, and draws conclusions about the trajectory of local social complexity compared with other parts of the Aegean.