Emerging Evidence for Neolithic Ithaca

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Published: Aug 30, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12766/jna.2022.3
Keywords:
Ionian Sea, Ithaca, Neolithic, Flint, Pottery Ithaka, Ionisches Meer, Neolithikum, Flint, Keramik

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Thanasis Papadopoulos
Emeritus Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece
Christina Marabea
Archaeologist (Ph.D.), University of Ioannina Research Programme in North Ithaca
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6220-5421
Stavros Oikonomidis
Adjunct Professor of Greek Archaeology, Arcadia University, Glenside, USA; Director of the Greek-Albanian Expedition; President of the Institute for the Transbalkanic Cultural Cooperation (ITCC), Athens, Greece
Akis Tsonos
Archaeologist (Ph.D.), scientific collaborator of the Greek-Albanian Expedition, Secretary of the Institute for the Transbalkanic Cultural Cooperation (ITCC), Athens, Greece
Yannos G. Lolos
Emeritus Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece

Abstract

The article presents new evidence for the Neolithic habitation on Ithaca, consisting of ceramic and stone finds, recognised among material from the University of Ioannina excavations at the site of Agios Athanasios-School of Homer in the northwest part of Ithaca, Greece. The new Neolithic site is considered within the wider cultural context of the Ionian Islands, in the late 5th/4th millennium BC. Our current knowledge suggests a permanent Neolithic occupation at the site, as opposed to seasonal occupation or to a special purpose occupation. The Neolithic people at the School of Homer may have been part of a dynamic network of Late/Final Neolithic installations in Western Greece, engaging themselves in inter-regional communal connections along the routes of the most ancient seafaring in the Ionian Sea.

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Papadopoulos et al. 2022: T. Papadopoulos/C. Marabea/S. Oikonomidis/A. Tsonos/Y. G. Lolos, Emerging Evidence for Neolithic Ithaca. JNA 24, 2022, 47–59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12766/jna.2022.3.