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Front cover image: Large rock cut patitiri , Methana (photograph by the author).
Back cover: A terraced valley, Methana (photography by the author).
Fig. 1.1 | Ground plan of the Vari house, Attica |
Fig. 1.2 | Ground plan of the Dema house, Attica |
Fig. 3.1 | Elevation map of the Akte peninsula with first, second, and third order sites |
Fig. 3.2 | Elevation map of the Methana peninsula, with first, second, and third order sites |
Fig. 3.3 | Elevation map of Atene, Attica, with second and third order sites, and Sounion towers |
Fig. 3.4 | Elevation map of the Eurotas valley, Laconia, with first, second, and third order sites |
Fig. 3.5 | Slope map of the Akte peninsula |
Fig. 3.6 | Slope map of the Methana peninsula |
Fig. 3.7 | Slope map of the Eurotas valley, Laconia |
Fig. 3.8 | CORINE land use data for the Akte peninsula |
Fig. 3.9 | View of the terraced landscape of Methana, from the acropolis of Oga |
Fig. 3.10 | CORINE land use data for the Methana peninsula |
Fig. 3.11 | CORINE land use data for the Eurotas valley, Laconia |
Fig. 3.12 | Princess Tower complex with threshing floor |
Fig. 3.13 | Methana Tower 2/Methana Installation 1, on the acropolis of Oga Methana peninsula |
Fig. 3.14 | Akte Tower 5, Akte peninsula |
Fig. 3.15 | Methana Tower 6, Methana Peninsula |
Fig. 3.16 | Turmgehfte Atene Tower 5, Atene survey, Attica |
Fig. 3.17 | Ground plan of the house near Vari |
Fig. 3.18 | Isometric reconstruction of the house near Vari |
Fig. 3.19 | Ground plan of site C-38, Paximadhi peninsula |
Fig. 3.20 | Ground plan of site Akte SRS 19, Akte peninsula |
Fig. 3.21 | Ground plan of site Akte SRS 54, Akte peninsula |
Fig. 3.22 | Continuum of simple rural sites |
Fig. 3.23 | Abandoned threshing floor in the Eurotas valley, Laconia |
Fig. 3.24 | Reconstruction of a Classical trapetum |
Fig. 3.25 | Reconstruction of a Classical-Hellenistic lever press |
Fig. 3.26 | Venn diagram illustrating the number of installation sites with each ceramic class |
Fig. 4.1 | Shaded relief map of the Eurotas valley with ancient roads, and least-cost paths |
Fig. 4.2 | Distance in minutes from Halieis with least-cost paths to first and second order sites |
Fig. 4.3 | Distance in minutes from Hermione with least-cost paths to first and second order sites |
Fig. 4.4 | Distance in minutes from second order sites in the Akte peninsula |
Fig. 4.5 | Distance in minutes from Methana with least-cost paths to first order sites |
Fig. 4.6 | Distance in minutes from Oga with least-cost paths to first order sites |
Fig. 4.7 | Distance in minutes form second order sites in the Methana peninsula |
Fig. 4.8 | Distance in minutes from Halieis, with least-cost paths and first, second, and third order sites |
Fig. 4.9 | Distance in minutes from Hermione, with least-cost paths and first, second, and third order sites |
Fig. 4.10 | Distance in minutes from second order sites, with least-cost paths |
Fig. 4.11 | Distance in minutes from Methana, with least-cost paths and first, second, and third order sites |
Fig. 4.12 | Distance in minutes from Oga, with least-cost paths and first, second, and third order sites |
Fig. 4.13 | Distance in minutes from installations in the Akte peninsula |
Fig. 4.14 | Distance in minutes from installations in the Methana peninsula and least-cost paths via installations |
Fig. 4.15 | Extent of visible land from first and second order sites in the Akte peninsula |
Fig. 4.16 | Extent of visible land from simple rural sites in the Akte peninsula |
Fig. 4.17 | Extent of visible land from installations in the Akte peninsula |
Fig. 4.18 | Extent of visible land from towers in the Akte peninsula |
Fig. 4.19 | Extent of visible land from first and second order sites in the Methana peninsula |
Fig. 4.20 | Extent of visible land from simple rural sites in the Methana peninsula |
Fig. 4.21 | Extent of visible land from installations in the Methana peninsula |
Fig. 4.22 | Extent of visible land from towers in the Methana peninsula |
Fig. 5.1 | Flow of resources from a household/farmstead unit |
Fig. 5.2 | Ancient roads in Attica |
Fig. App. 1.1 | Location of the Akte, Atene, Methana, and Eurotas valley survey areas |
Fig. App. 1.2 | Farmsteads in the Atene survey, and Sounion towers Attica |
Fig. App. 1.3 | Farmsteads in the Eurotas valley survey, Laconia |
Fig. App. 1.4 | Farmsteads in the northern area of the Akte peninsula survey |
Fig. App. 1.5 | Farmsteads in the southern area of the Akte peninsula survey |
Fig. App. 1.6 | Farmsteads in the Methana peninsula survey |