Friday, May 29, 2015, 5:50pm – 6:10pm
Presented by William Parkinson, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Michael Galaty, Daniel Pullen, Panagiotis Karkanas, and Giorgos Papathanassopoulos
In track I. SOCIAL SPACES, COMMUNITIES, AND LIFEWAYS

In this paper, we explore the evolution of coastal settlement dynamics during the Late and Final Neolithic of the southern Peloponnese and the islands of the Aegean. Using our ongoing research in Diros Bay as a case study, we investigate the variation in settlement patterns that occurred from the sixth to fourth millenia BC. We discuss the results of our recent intensive survey in Diros Bay as well as our multi-disciplinary investigations of Alepotrypa Cave and Ksagounaki Promontory. Our goal is to situate these sites in the Mani within the broader context of contemporaneous Late and Final Neolithic sites in the southern Aegean, such as Kouphovouno and Geraki in Lakonia, Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, and Strophilas on Andros.