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Rural Landscapes along the Vardar Valley: Two site-less surveys near Veles and Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Damjan Donev
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The two small-scale and hyper-intensive surface artifact surveys presented in this study were the first glimpse of the type and distribution of settlement on a parish level and in a rural context, in the regions along the Vardar Valley. Not attempting to offer a representative coverage of the region as a whole or of certain types of micro-geographic entities, the surveys were rather concentrated on 1) reconstructing the long-term history of individual settlements (by means of highly intensive and systematic survey coverage and careful study of the ceramic fabrics); 2) understanding the integral set of habitation practices (by adopting a site-less approach in the interpretation of the surface artifact scatters) and 3) exploring the type of micro-topographic elements preferred by the local farming communities (the concept of settlement niche). The study and interpretation of the field data faced us with the problem of understanding the settlement dynamic on a micro-level, but it also brought up a series of interpretative and methodological problems inherent to all studies of surface archaeological material.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Acknowledgements
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Table of Contents
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I. Introduction, theoretical approaches and method of fieldwork
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II. Description of the first survey area
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III. Chronology of the collected material and spatial distribution by periods
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IV. The region of Montenegro near Skopje and the second survey area
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V. Chronology of the collected surface finds and spatial distribution by periods
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VI. General conclusions
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References
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List of maps
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List of photos (on CD)
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Contents of the appendices (on CD)
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Abbreviations
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Published: 2015
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407343488 (ebook)
- 9781407313887 (paperback)
BAR Number: S2731