The Argolid Exploration Project grew out of a series of extensive topographical surveys conducted by
M.H. Jameson (with the aid of V.B. Jameson in 1950) in the southern half of
the Argolid peninsula in the 1950’s. These topographical surveys were the basis for the work of T. W. Jacobsen at
Franchthi Cave and
M. H. Jameson at
Halieis. It was during the excavations of these sites in the 1960’s that both Jacobsen and Jameson recognized the limitations of focusing on two sites within a ‘complex archaeological landscape’ and decided that a more intensive program of survey was warranted (Jameson, Runnels and van Andel 1994, 8; refer also to Jameson 1976). The program initiated by the pair for the surrounding countryside came to be implemented under the Argolid Exploration Project. This program was multidisciplinary in scope, composed of archaeological, geological, botanical, oceanographic, historical, and ethnographic research.
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Posted at May 10/2005 10:30 AM:
tim webmoor: Do you have any photos of Jameson/Jacobsen you could post?
