Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente, Supplemento 13. Athens and Attica from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Archaic period. The spatial roots of politics and society

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Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente, Supplemento 13. Athens and Attica from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Archaic period. The spatial roots of politics and society is written by Alain Duplouy and published by All’Insegna del Giglio. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9609559425 (ISBN 10) and 9789609559423 (ISBN 13).

This volume contains the proceedings of the international conference Attica from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period. The Spatial Roots of Politics and Society, organised by the Italian Archaeological School at Athens and the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne on 10 and 11 June 2021. The venue was originally scheduled for 13 and 14 March 2020 in Athens, but the event fell victim to the global COVID19 crisis and was eventually reorganised as an online conference in June 2021. The conference was organised in connection with the research project Lands of Meaning. A GIS Study of Space and Social Praxis in Ancient Attica from the Mycenaean Age to the Birth of Democracy (1200-480 BC), which was carried out as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) between 2017 and 2019 at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The Lands of Meaning project aimed to re-examine the Athenian territory from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Classical period by considering Attica as a space that was socially constructed through a constant dialogue between the landscape and the communities that inhabited it. The aim of the project was to integrate the large amount of archaeological data collected throughout the 20th c. into a heuristic and hermeneutic framework that considers the spatial and ecological dimensions of historical, cultural, political and social phenomena. The Lands of Meaning project was originally conceived as a two-year pilot project to introduce new digital methods and heuristic social theories of space. The project will be further developed at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne as a long-term endeavour to incorporate space into archaeological thinking and to consider the material and territorial conditions of the emergence of the city-state in Athens and more broadly in ancient Greece. The conference programme can be found below. The presentations were not recorded to allow for a lively discussion. Most of the speeches given online were then converted into the contributions collected in this volume, supplemented by a chapter by Pavlos Karvonis on Roman Attica and a description of the Thorikos Archive by the Belgian team. Unfortunately, some of the lectures given at the conference could not be included in the volume. First of all, we would like to thank Emanuele Papi, Director of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens, who fully supported the project and proposed to host the conference, which was to take place in March 2020 at the School’s premises in Athens. Our heartfelt thanks go to our Greek colleagues from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Ephorates of Antiquities of Attica, Eleni Andrikou, Stella Chrysoulaki, Anastasia Gadolou and Christina Merkouri, who agreed to chair the conference sessions and led fascinating and disciplined discussions. We also invited four “titans” – as we amicably called them during the conference – to a final round of talks. Tonio Hölscher, Irene Lemos, Robin Osborne and François de Polignac took up the challenge and drew fascinating conclusions from the presentations, as well as some key ideas for the elaboration of ancient history from archaeological evidence. As it would have been difficult to render these lively thoughts into formal papers, we have decided to preserve them in our oral memory. Finally, we would like to thank the Italian Archaeological School at Athens for including the publication of the conference in its collections, as well as the two anonymous reviewers whose comments have given the authors food for thoughts. This book was published with the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the research unit “Trajectoires” (UMR 8215). While Nikolaos Arvanitis was involved in the organisation of the conference as part of his MSCA scholarship, Alain Duplouy compiled and edited all the contributions on his own. We are also indebted to Mariana Silva Porto, who thoroughly re-read all contributions, especially those written by non-native speakers, and significantly improved the texts. As a doctoral student working on the Paris project, she deserves full credit for contributing to the edition of the volume.