Classical Studies 2904A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Thatching, Ecomuseum, Seashell

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2904A/B
• Professor: Catherine Pratt

Document Summary

Excavations in switzerland as early as 1854 at obermeilen on the lake of zurich: found groups pf arranged piles. Wooden posts set in the mud in the lake. Used to seeing stone foundations in other parts of greece. Christos tsountas supposedly visited sites like this in italy around 1900: did this even before he excavated dimini and sesklo. There is no record of him actually going but he did write about wanting to go. In greece their existence was only speculated: herodotus book 5. 16. The persians tried to attack the lake-dwellers in northern greece who live on large platforms set on tall piles in the lake. The result of almost an accidental discovery while trying to find the homeland of the ancient macedonians. 1938 1940: a. keramopoullos discovered the site of nisi near dispilio on the shore of lake. Even then there were political ramifications of these finds: they were a testament to the antiquity of the local inhabitants.