On Site Geoarchaeology on a Neolithic Tell Site in Greece: Archaeological Sediments, Microartifacts and Software Development

102 Pages·2009·6.65 MB·English

by  Dimitris Kontogiorgos (ed.)

O S G
N ITE EOARCHAEOLOGY ON A
N T S G :
EOLITHIC ELL ITE IN REECE
A S ,
RCHAEOLOGICAL EDIMENTS
M
ICROARTIFACTS AND
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OFTWARE EVELOPMENT

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O S G
N ITE EOARCHAEOLOGY ON A
N T S G :
EOLITHIC ELL ITE IN REECE
A S ,
RCHAEOLOGICAL EDIMENTS
M
ICROARTIFACTS AND
S D
OFTWARE EVELOPMENT

DIMITRIS KONTOGIORGOS
EDITOR

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Kontogiorgos, Dimitris.
On site geoarchaeology on a Neolithic tell site in Greece : archaeological sediments,
microartifacts, and software development / Dimitris Kontogiorgos.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN: 978-1-61470-473-7 (eBook)
1. Paliambela Kolindros Site (Greece) 2. Neolithic period--Greece--Pieria Region. 3.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Pieria Region. 4. Archaeological geology--Greece--Pieria
Region. 5. Archaeological geology--Computer programs. 6. Sediments (Geology)--Analysis.
7. Particle size determination. 8. Soil science in archaeology--Greece--Pieria Region. 9.
Antiquities, Prehistoric--Greece--Pieria Region. 10. Pieria Region (Greece)--Antiquities. I.
Title.
GN776.22.G8K66 2009
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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements vii
Chapter 1 The Rise of a Neolithic Tell: The Evidence from Particle
Size Analysis on Archaeological Sediments 1
Dimitris Kontogiorgos
Chapter 2 Tell the Story of a Ditch. Additional Sedimentary and
Microartifactual Evidence for the Use of Space on a
Neolithic Tell 19
Dimitris Kontogiorgos
Chapter 3 Test again for the Optimum! Confirming the Use of
Genetic Algorithm Minimization on Microartifact
Weight Estimation 27
Dimitris Kontogiorgos and Alexandros Leontitsis
Chapter 4 Microartelyzer: A Software for Microartifacts’
Quantification 47
Alexandros Leontitsis and Dimitris Kontogiorgos
Chapter 5 From Tells to Extended Settlements: On-site
Geoarchaeology and Cultural Formation Processes at
the Extended Neolithic Settlement at Korinos (Northern
Greece) 57
Manthos Besios, Fotini Adaktylou and Dimitris
Kontogiorgos
vi Contents
Chapter 6 From Neolithic to Hellenistic. A Geoarchaeological
Approach to the Burial of a Hellenistic Theatre: The
Evidence from Particle Size Analysis and Microartifacts 71
Dimitris Kontogiorgos and Kaliopi Preka-Alexandri
Chapter 7 A Comment on the Vertical Movement of Microartifacts
in an Anthropogenic and in a Non Anthropogenic
Environment and the Effects of Formation Processes 81
Dimitris Kontogiorgos
Chapter 8 Concluding Remarks 85
Dimitris Kontogiorgos
Index 89
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Dimitris Kontogiorgos would like to express his deep appreciation and
gratitude to Prof. Paul Halstead (University of Sheffield-U.K.) for his valuable
academic advice, support and encouragement. D.K would like also to thank
Professor Kostas Kotsakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-Greece) for his
encouragement to study the geoarchaeology of the site. D.K would like also to
express his appreciation to Dr. Sherry Fox (Wiener Laboratory at the American
School of Classical studies at Athens) for her support. This work would not be
possible without generous funding from the Wiener Laboratory at the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens.