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The aim of this research is to illustrate a possible way of dealing with a regional landscape and its long-term settlement history based on the integration of archaeological data applying a GIS based approach to the social dimension of the landscape. The large province area (ca 2,500 sqkm) of Boeotia (Central Greece) is examined by means of GIS (Geographical Information System), processing data from different archaeological, historical and environmental sources. The methodology established, dealing jointly with material culture and the environment, follows a critical comparative regional...

The urban and rural survey of the Greco-Roman town of Hyettos in Boeotia provides powerful insights into the rise and decline of a typical small city-state in a well-defined landscape. We follow village beginnings from Neolithic, early-farming times through the Bronze Age and into the dramatic appearance of the city in the Archaic era. Following an early Hellenistic climax the town and its countryside are transformed to a lesser agglomeration by the Imperial Roman period. After Late Antiquity and the final abandonment of the city, the survey reveals a return to a landscape of small rural...