Bronze Age Landscape and Society in Southern Epirus, Greece

Aby Thomas F Tartaron Drawing on environmental and artefactual data from the Nikopolis Project carried out in south-west Epirus from 1991 to 1995, this revised thesis focuses on Bronze Age settlement in the lower valley of the river Acheron. Using this evidence, as well as survey data and study of assemblages from previously excavated sites in the area, Thomas Tartaron argues that the climate and resources of the river valley would have provided a good environment for year-round settlement, especially when practising a diverse subsistence strategy. The importance of interaction with other areas, particularly the Mycenaean worldm and the impact of the foundation of a Mycenaean trading colony close by, are also discussed.