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A Survey of Eastern Arcadia in Prehistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

R. Howell
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The material for the present study was collected during 1963 and 1964, on various expeditions to eastern Arcadia. My original intention was to survey the whole province with regard to its prehistoric occupation; this, however, proved too great a task in the time available, and I was able to cover little more than the highland plains around the Classical cities of Tegea, Mantinea, and Orchomenos. The following work will therefore be mainly concerned with that area, which constitutes eastern Arcadia, although I have also listed the evidence for prehistoric habitation over the remainder of the province as well. I have taken the province to cover the area as described by Pausanias, rather than the present-day administrative unit. This is not an exhaustive survey, even of the area most intensively covered; rather it should be seen as a preliminary work, which will, it is hoped, stimulate interest in further field-work and perhaps excavation in this neglected area of the Peloponnese.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 65 , November 1970 , pp. 79 - 127
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1970

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Acknowledgements

I should like to thank Professor R. Hope Simpson, on whose advice this survey was undertaken, for his encouragement; and Miss Bente Magnus for her drawings of the stone tools. I should also like to thank all the many Arcadians, too many, alas, to mention all by name here, who kindly helped me and provided me with invaluable information, and whose warm hospitality I enjoyed during my stay in their province.

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