Maeve McHugh

University of Birmingham, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, Faculty Member

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Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Birmingham
Participant on the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey
Monograph: The Ancient Greek Farmstead, Oxbow, 2017

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Dorian Q Fuller

University College London

Maurizio Forte

Duke University

Thomas Gallant

University of California, San Diego

Paul Arthur

University of Salento

Francesco Camia

Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma

Carlo Citter

University of Siena / Università di Siena

Sophie Hueglin

University Of Tuebingen

Andrea Squitieri

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Seth Bernard

University of Toronto

Andrew Wilson

University of Oxford

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The Bays of East Attica Regional Survey 2020–2021: New Evidence for Settlement, Production, and Exchange in Porto Rafti, Greece, from Prehistory to Late Antiquity

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This paper presents the work of the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey project in 2020 and 2021.... more This paper presents the work of the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey project in 2020 and 2021. The project focuses on documenting evidence of human occupation and land use around the bay of Porto Rafti in eastern Attica, Greece. Work in 2020 and 2021 built on the progress achieved in the 2019 pilot season, which established the presence of a Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age obsidian processing centre on the Pounta peninsula, a sizeable Late Helladic IIIC settlement on the islet of Raftis, and some minor pre- and post-Ptolemaic activity on the Koroni peninsula, previously assessed as a single-period military camp. Fieldwork in 2021 documented a dense, multi-period surface scatter on the islet of Praso, including Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Late Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman material. Remains of waste products from the manufacture of Late Helladic IIIC White Ware, Classical/Hellenistic tile, Late Roman tile, and metal indicate...

The Reconstruction of an Agricultural Landscape

Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World

A GIS exploratory analysis of farmsteads: a case-study of the Karystian farmsteads on the Paximadi Peninsula

Αυτό το άρθρο προέκυψε από την έρευνά μου σχετικά με τον ρόλο και τη λειτουργία των αγροικιών στη... more Αυτό το άρθρο προέκυψε από την έρευνά μου σχετικά με τον ρόλο και τη λειτουργία των αγροικιών στη γεωργία κατά την Κλασική-Ελληνιστική περίοδο (450-250 π.Χ).1 Η προβληματική ταυτοποίηση των αγροτικών θέσεων που διστακτικά ταυτίζονται με αγροικίες έχει οδηγήσει κάποιους ερευνητές να απορρίψουν την ύπαρξη αγροτικών θέσεων που θα μπορούσαν να έχουν διάφορες λειτουργίες (εργασία, αποθήκευση, επεξεργασία) για όσους ασχολούνταν με την γεωργία. 2 Σε αυτό το άρθρο θα παρουσιαστούν οι αγροτικές θέσεις που προσδιορίζονται ως αγροικίες στην επιφανειακή έρευνα στην Κάρυστο3 προκειμένου να πραγματοποιηθεί μια διερευνητική ανάλυση της χωρικής κινητικότητας μεταξύ των αγροικιών και των αστικών κέντρων με σκοπό την κατανόηση του πως η προσβασιμότητα στις αγροικίες διευκόλυνε τους αγροτικούς τους ρόλους. Θα ξεκινήσω με μια σύντομη επισκόπηση βασισμένη στο ρόλο της τυπολογίας των αγροτικών θέσεων που προτείνονται στην έρευνά μου και τις προκλήσεις που συνδέονται με την εφαρμογή αυτής της τυπολογίας σ...

The Ancient Greek Farmstead

To the dank halls of Hades": sensory manipulation at the Nekromanteion of Acheron

Going the Extra Mile: Travel, Time and Distance in Classical Attica

The Annual of the British School at Athens, 2019

The aim of this paper is to explore the physical connectivity of Attica by examining the realitie... more The aim of this paper is to explore the physical connectivity of Attica by examining the realities of travel for Athenians wishing to engage with wider civic, social, economic and cultic institutions. This will be achieved by focussing upon the practicalities of short-, medium- and long-distance travel with the aim of differentiating aspects, modes and reasons for travel. This investigation will be realised through a series of computational scenarios created on the basis of a combination of ancient and nineteenth-century accounts of journeys through Attica along with the archaeological evidence of the Athenian road system. The results of this study shed light upon the constraints on, and opportunities for, participation in wider practices and the experience of travel for the individual traveller. Recent studies have shown there were many spaces in Attica that provided opportunities for Athenians to come together, to interact with each other and participate in civic, ritual and socia...

The 2019 Bays of East Attica Regional Survey (BEARS) Project: New Archaeological Evidence for the History of Coastal Settlement, Economy, and Connectivity from Porto Rafti (Greece)

by Maeve McHugh, Grace Erny, and Robert Stephan

This paper presents the findings of the inaugural season of the Bays of East Attica Regional Surv... more

To reap a rich harvest: experiencing agricultural labour in ancient Greece

World Archaeology

In ancient Greece, the harvest was a time of high stress and intense labour, when farmers engaged... more In ancient Greece, the harvest was a time of high stress and intense labour, when farmers engaged in continuous work to reap, transport, and process their agricultural yields. For the harvest to be successful, not only did the individual need to be prepared for hard work, but they were reliant on their local agrarian community to offer support and share labour demands. As such, the harvest was an opportunity for workers to experience shared labour and express physically the ideals of hard work, reciprocity, and connectivity. By considering the mechanisms of agriculture in ancient landscapes, along with measuring the physical stress this had on the individual, and the means by which workers could come together to share labour, this article examines the lived experience of ancient farmers during this crucial period of the agricultural calendar, in order to better understand the immaterial aspects of connectivity and community interaction in the ancient countryside.

To reap a rich harvest: experiencing agricultural labour in ancient Greece

World Archaeology, 2019

In ancient Greece, the harvest was a time of high stress and intense labour, when farmers engaged... more In ancient Greece, the harvest was a time of high stress and intense labour, when farmers engaged in continuous work to reap, transport, and process their agricultural yields. For the harvest to be successful, not only did the individual need to be prepared for hard work, but they were reliant on their local agrarian community to offer support and share labour demands. As such, the harvest was an opportunity for workers to experience shared labour and express physically the ideals of hard work, reciprocity, and connectivity.
By considering the mechanisms of agriculture in ancient landscapes, along with measuring the physical stress this had on the individual, and the means by which workers could come together to share labour, this article examines the lived experience of ancient farmers during this crucial period of the agricultural calendar, in order to better understand the immaterial aspects of connectivity and community interaction in the ancient countryside.

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