Mediterranean Islands, fragile communities and persistent landscapes: Antikythera in long-term perspective

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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Problems and Perspectives; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Scales, Agencies and Island Archaeology; 1.3 Fragility and Persistence; 2 Methods and Data; 2.1 Intensive Survey; 2.2 Artefact Study; 2.3 Ethnography and History; 2.4 Geoarchaeology and Ecology; 2.5 Spatial and Computational Modelling; 2.6 Methodological Limitations; 3 A Mediterranean and Island Environment; 3.1 Geology, Topography and Tectonics; 3.2 Short- and Long-Term Climates; 3.3 Winds, Waves and Currents; 3.4 The Structure of Island Resources; 3.4.1 Harbours and Hydrology.;Explores the human ecology and history of Antikythera over the full course of its approximately seven-thousand-year history of human activity. Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Problems and Perspectives 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Scales, Agencies and Island Archaeology 1.3 Fragility and Persistence 2 Methods and Data 2.1 Intensive Survey 2.2 Artefact Study 2.3 Ethnography and History 2.4 Geoarchaeology and Ecology 2.5 Spatial and Computational Modelling 2.6 Methodological Limitations 3 A Mediterranean and Island Environment 3.1 Geology, Topography and Tectonics 3.2 Short- and Long-Term Climates 3.3 Winds, Waves and Currents 3.4 The Structure of Island Resources 3.4.1 Harbours and Hydrology. 3.4.2 Lithics and Soils3.4.3 Erosion 3.5 Plant and Animal Life 3.6 Summary 4 Material Worlds 4.1 Methodological Issues 4.1.1 The Visible and the Invisible 4.1.2 Diagnostic Uncertainty 4.2 Material Timelines 4.2.1 Earlier Prehistory 4.2.2 Later Prehistory 4.2.3 Early Iron Age to Roman 4.2.4 Medieval to Recent 4.3 Behavioural Themes 4.3.1 Cooking, Eating and Drinking 4.3.2 Transport and Storage 4.3.3 Conflict and Coercion 4.4 Abundance and Scarcity 4.4.1 Production and Acquisition 4.4.2 Maintenance and Recycling 4.5 Concluding Remarks. 5 Landscape Archaeology and Historical Ecology I5.1 Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries AD 5.1.1 Historical Sources, Standing Remains and Excavated Material 5.1.2 Surface Artefact Patterning 6 Landscape Archaeology and Historical Ecology II 6.1 Earlier Prehistory 6.1.1 Artefact Patterning 6.2 The Third and Second Millenniums BC 6.2.1 Surface Artefact Patterning 6.3 The First Millennium BC 6.3.1 Historical Sources, Standing Remains and Excavated Material 6.3.2 Surface Artefact Patterning 6.4 The First to Seventh Centuries AD. 6.4.1 Historical Sources, Standing Remains and Excavated Material6.4.2 Surface Artefact Patterning 6.5 The Eighth to Seventeenth Centuries AD 6.5.1 Historical Sources 6.5.2 Artefact Patterning 6.6 Concluding Remarks 7 Mobility and Investment 7.1 Connected and Mobile Ecologies 7.1.1 Visibility on and Near Antikythera 7.1.2 Movement on Antikythera 7.1.3 Travel beyond Antikythera 7.2 Landscape Investment 7.2.1 Disinvestment and Degradation 8 The Eccentric, the Specialist and the Displaced 8.1 Pirates 8.2 Cash-Croppers 8.3 Hunters and Herders, Soldiers and Doctors. 8.4 Monastics, Hermits and Retirees 8.5 Colonists, Refugees, Exiles and Shipwrecked Sailors 8.6 Tourists, Expatriates, Academics and Other Enthusiasts 9 Antikythera in Context Appendix 1: Statistical and Computational Methods I.1 General I.2 Chapter 3 I.2.1 Erosion Models I.3 Chapter 4 I.3.1 Pairwise Shared Temporal Uncertainty I.4 Chapters 5-6 I.4.1 K Functions I.4.2 The Definition of Locations I.4.3 Multivariate Logistic Regression I.4.4 Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling I.5 Chapter 7 I.5.1 Visibility I.5.2 Centrality I.5.3 Overlapping Least Cost Paths 1.5.4 Aggregate Current Map 1.5.5 Kernel Density of Semi-Variance.