Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Landscape studies; 3. Historical background to the landscape of Methana; 4. Conducting fieldwork on Methana; 5. Kinship, marriage, and the transmission of names and property; 6. The productive landscape; 7. The historical landscape: memory, monumentality, and time-depth; 8. The kinship landscape; 9. The religious landscape; 10. Conclusions: a Greek landscape with relatives.

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An interdisciplinary study exploring how Greek villagers understood and reacted to their landscapes.

About the Author

Hamish Forbes is associate professor of archaeology at the University of Nottingham. He has excavated in the USA, Ireland, Britain, and Greece and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Southern Argolid of Greece. He is the author of A Rough and Rocky Place: The Landscape and Settlement History of the Methana Peninsula, Greece.

Reviews

Review of the hardback: '… one can only be grateful to Forbes that decades of experiencing the cultures of Methana from the inside allow him to share with us here both the 'language' and 'literature' of its landscapes.' Cambridge Archaeological Journal