EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS IN THE FIELD OF ARCHAEOLOGY: THE HELIKE EXAMPLE

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Published: Jan 1, 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11247
Keywords:
Helike poros Early Helladic Rizomylos Dye-Works Valimitika
Dora Katsonopoulou
The Helike Project
Abstract
Earth science applications are widely used in the field of archaeology today. The Helike Project made use of such applications at a time when archaeology in Greece was mostly limited to traditional methodology only. Thus Helike constitutes a pioneer study case of such investigations and of their usefulness in the field of archaeology. In searching for Ancient Helike, our team since 1988 combined extensively traditional archaeological research methods and geophysical and geological exploration. The results of this multidisciplinary approach were in most cases successful beyond expectations. In this paper, I present and discuss the most significant archaeological discoveries in the area of Helike based primarily on data from our geological and geophysical investigations the last 20 years.
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Earth science applications are widely used in the field of archaeology today. The Helike Project
made use of such applications at a time when archaeology in Greece was mostly limited to traditional
methodology only. Thus Helike constitutes a pioneer study case of such investigations and
of their usefulness in the field of archaeology. In searching for Ancient Helike, our team since
combined extensively traditional archaeological research methods and geophysical and geological
exploration. The results of this multidisciplinary approach were in most cases successful
beyond expectations. In this paper, I present and discuss the most significant archaeological
discoveries in the area of Helike based primarily on data from our geological and geophysical investigations
the last 20 years.