Hamish Forbes
Biographic Data
| ID | 369317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hamish Forbes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hamish |
| FAMILY NAME | Forbes |
| SIGNATURE | FORBES H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7475-3150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte
The high mountains of the Mediterranean are often considered as refuges of ancient traditions, particularly of pastoralism and brigandage. Is this image true? This paper reports the first systematic archaeological research on Aspromonte, Southern Calabria. Archaeological, cartographic and air photo evidence suggests that people used the high mountains in all periods from the Neolithic onwards. However, early usage was low-intensity and probably f…
Archaeology as Intellectual Service: Engaged Archaeology in San Pasquale Valley, Calabria, Italy
Laborscapes and Archaeologies of Sustainability: Early Globalization and Commercial Farming in the San Pasquale Valley, Calabria, Italy from AD 1800–2018
Archaeological research on sustainability enjoys an increasingly high profile in the discipline, with scholars employing a range of methodological and theoretical platforms. We argue that the most successful forays of applied archaeological research into sustainability encompass three major realms: the social foundations and local histories of any human community, the economic resources and practices to support that community, and the environment…
Surplus, storage and status in a rural Greek community
This study draws on a range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century ethnographic materials from an agrarian community in Greece to explore the links between a nexus of behaviours related to avoiding subsistence risk. Producing a ‘normal surplus’, along with storage strategies and the growing of a wide range of crops, was part of a mix of risk-avoidance behaviours. Ultimately, however, the success of these behaviours depended on access to sufficient …
Archaeology and the Making of Improper Citizens in Modern Greece
This study integrates the dominant archaeological discourse concerning use of the Classical past in defining national identity in Greece with a strand of ethnographic research on Greece’s officially unacknowledged minorities that has not found its way into the archaeological literature on Greece. The first part discusses how the Greek state has tried to deny the existence of ethnic alterities within its boundaries, often punishing those who insis…
Off-Site Scatters and the Manuring Hypothesis in Greek Survey Archaeology: An Ethnographic Approach
This article addresses the debate over the origin(s) of “background” artifacts found between archaeological sites in Greek survey projects, within the general context of refuse disposal practices. Ethnographic and practical data on manure formation and deposition, combined with archaeological and ethnoarchaeological studies, indicate that both the definition of refuse and its disposal are governed by complex, culturally determined rules. In antiq…
Meaning and Identity in a Greek Landscape: An Archaeological Ethnography
Researching Ekina ta Khronia [Times Past] in a Rural Greek Community
This contribution addresses recent reconsiderations of the work of ethnographers working with regional archaeological surveys in Greece. It discusses the relationship of oral histories to historical documents as representations of the past, in the context of long-term ethnographic and archaeological research on the peninsula of Methana in the Peloponnese. It investigates the historicity of oral stories as genuine rememberings of life in the past,…
Security and Settlement in the Mediaeval and Post-Mediaeval Peloponnese, Greece: 'Hard' History versus Oral History
Two recent publications have questioned the hypothesis that insecurity explains the later Ottoman period settlement pattern in the Greek Peloponnese. The present article re-examines the arguments against the demographic retreat hypothesis, focusing particularly on the evidence from a small case-study area, the peninsula of Methana. While previous discussion depended on historical documents, the present study incorporates material cultural and eth…
European Agriculture Viewed Bottom-side Upwards: Fodder- and Forage-provision in a Traditional Greek Community
Rafael Frankel, Schmuel Avitsur & Etan Ayalon. History and technology of olive oil in the Holy Land. 208 pages, 191 illustrations. 1994. Arlington (VA) & Tel Aviv: Oléarius Editions & Eretz Israel Mus…
Rafael Frankel, Schmuel Avitsur & Etan Ayalon. History and technology of olive oil in the Holy Land. 208 pages, 191 illustrations. 1994. Arlington (VA) & Tel Aviv: Oléarius Editions & Eretz Israel Museum; 0-917526-06-6 hardback $40. - Volume 70 Issue 268
European Agriculture Viewed Bottom-side Upwards: Fodder- and Forage-provision in a Traditional Greek Community
The Identification of pastoralist sites Within the context of estate-based agriculture in ancient Greece: Beyond the ‘Transhumance versus agro-pastoralism’ debate
The present ‘transhumance versus agro-pastoralism’ debate is here set within the context of a broadly based anthropological approach to pastoralism. Certain constant features of the relationship of pastoralists to their landscape are identifiable, although many aspects of pastoral strategies are variable over time and space and across socio-economic groups. The control of much of the pastoral exploitation of the landscape in antiquity by wealthy …
The Empress of China
Man and the Mediterranean forest: A history of resource depletion
University of Pennsylvania Radiocarbon Dates XIX
This date list includes most of the archaeologic and geologic samples dated in this laboratory since publication of our last date list (R, 1975, v 17, p 196-215) as well as many samples dated previously which lacked adequate sample information
Off-Site Scatters and the Manuring Hypothesis in Greek Survey Archaeology: An Ethnographic Approach
This article addresses the debate over the origin(s) of “background” artifacts found between archaeological sites in Greek survey projects, within the general context of refuse disposal practices. Ethnographic and practical data on manure formation and deposition, combined with archaeological and ethnoarchaeological studies, indicate that both the definition of refuse and its disposal are governed by complex, culturally determined rules. In antiq…
European Agriculture Viewed Bottom-side Upwards: Fodder- and Forage-provision in a Traditional Greek Community
University of Pennsylvania Radiocarbon Dates XIX
This date list includes most of the archaeologic and geologic samples dated in this laboratory since publication of our last date list (R, 1975, v 17, p 196-215) as well as many samples dated previously which lacked adequate sample information
Laborscapes and Archaeologies of Sustainability: Early Globalization and Commercial Farming in the San Pasquale Valley, Calabria, Italy from AD 1800–2018
Archaeological research on sustainability enjoys an increasingly high profile in the discipline, with scholars employing a range of methodological and theoretical platforms. We argue that the most successful forays of applied archaeological research into sustainability encompass three major realms: the social foundations and local histories of any human community, the economic resources and practices to support that community, and the environment…
Researching Ekina ta Khronia [Times Past] in a Rural Greek Community
This contribution addresses recent reconsiderations of the work of ethnographers working with regional archaeological surveys in Greece. It discusses the relationship of oral histories to historical documents as representations of the past, in the context of long-term ethnographic and archaeological research on the peninsula of Methana in the Peloponnese. It investigates the historicity of oral stories as genuine rememberings of life in the past,…
The Identification of pastoralist sites Within the context of estate-based agriculture in ancient Greece: Beyond the ‘Transhumance versus agro-pastoralism’ debate
The present ‘transhumance versus agro-pastoralism’ debate is here set within the context of a broadly based anthropological approach to pastoralism. Certain constant features of the relationship of pastoralists to their landscape are identifiable, although many aspects of pastoral strategies are variable over time and space and across socio-economic groups. The control of much of the pastoral exploitation of the landscape in antiquity by wealthy …
Archaeology as Intellectual Service: Engaged Archaeology in San Pasquale Valley, Calabria, Italy
Security and Settlement in the Mediaeval and Post-Mediaeval Peloponnese, Greece: 'Hard' History versus Oral History
Two recent publications have questioned the hypothesis that insecurity explains the later Ottoman period settlement pattern in the Greek Peloponnese. The present article re-examines the arguments against the demographic retreat hypothesis, focusing particularly on the evidence from a small case-study area, the peninsula of Methana. While previous discussion depended on historical documents, the present study incorporates material cultural and eth…
Surplus, storage and status in a rural Greek community
This study draws on a range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century ethnographic materials from an agrarian community in Greece to explore the links between a nexus of behaviours related to avoiding subsistence risk. Producing a ‘normal surplus’, along with storage strategies and the growing of a wide range of crops, was part of a mix of risk-avoidance behaviours. Ultimately, however, the success of these behaviours depended on access to sufficient …
Archaeology and the Making of Improper Citizens in Modern Greece
This study integrates the dominant archaeological discourse concerning use of the Classical past in defining national identity in Greece with a strand of ethnographic research on Greece’s officially unacknowledged minorities that has not found its way into the archaeological literature on Greece. The first part discusses how the Greek state has tried to deny the existence of ethnic alterities within its boundaries, often punishing those who insis…
University of Pennsylvania Radiocarbon Dates XIX
This date list includes most of the archaeologic and geologic samples dated in this laboratory since publication of our last date list (R, 1975, v 17, p 196-215) as well as many samples dated previously which lacked adequate sample information
Man and the Mediterranean forest: A history of resource depletion
The Empress of China
The Identification of pastoralist sites Within the context of estate-based agriculture in ancient Greece: Beyond the ‘Transhumance versus agro-pastoralism’ debate
The present ‘transhumance versus agro-pastoralism’ debate is here set within the context of a broadly based anthropological approach to pastoralism. Certain constant features of the relationship of pastoralists to their landscape are identifiable, although many aspects of pastoral strategies are variable over time and space and across socio-economic groups. The control of much of the pastoral exploitation of the landscape in antiquity by wealthy …
Rafael Frankel, Schmuel Avitsur & Etan Ayalon. History and technology of olive oil in the Holy Land. 208 pages, 191 illustrations. 1994. Arlington (VA) & Tel Aviv: Oléarius Editions & Eretz Israel Mus…
Rafael Frankel, Schmuel Avitsur & Etan Ayalon. History and technology of olive oil in the Holy Land. 208 pages, 191 illustrations. 1994. Arlington (VA) & Tel Aviv: Oléarius Editions & Eretz Israel Museum; 0-917526-06-6 hardback $40. - Volume 70 Issue 268
European Agriculture Viewed Bottom-side Upwards: Fodder- and Forage-provision in a Traditional Greek Community
European Agriculture Viewed Bottom-side Upwards: Fodder- and Forage-provision in a Traditional Greek Community
Security and Settlement in the Mediaeval and Post-Mediaeval Peloponnese, Greece: 'Hard' History versus Oral History
Two recent publications have questioned the hypothesis that insecurity explains the later Ottoman period settlement pattern in the Greek Peloponnese. The present article re-examines the arguments against the demographic retreat hypothesis, focusing particularly on the evidence from a small case-study area, the peninsula of Methana. While previous discussion depended on historical documents, the present study incorporates material cultural and eth…
Researching Ekina ta Khronia [Times Past] in a Rural Greek Community
This contribution addresses recent reconsiderations of the work of ethnographers working with regional archaeological surveys in Greece. It discusses the relationship of oral histories to historical documents as representations of the past, in the context of long-term ethnographic and archaeological research on the peninsula of Methana in the Peloponnese. It investigates the historicity of oral stories as genuine rememberings of life in the past,…
Meaning and Identity in a Greek Landscape: An Archaeological Ethnography
Off-Site Scatters and the Manuring Hypothesis in Greek Survey Archaeology: An Ethnographic Approach
This article addresses the debate over the origin(s) of “background” artifacts found between archaeological sites in Greek survey projects, within the general context of refuse disposal practices. Ethnographic and practical data on manure formation and deposition, combined with archaeological and ethnoarchaeological studies, indicate that both the definition of refuse and its disposal are governed by complex, culturally determined rules. In antiq…
Archaeology and the Making of Improper Citizens in Modern Greece
This study integrates the dominant archaeological discourse concerning use of the Classical past in defining national identity in Greece with a strand of ethnographic research on Greece’s officially unacknowledged minorities that has not found its way into the archaeological literature on Greece. The first part discusses how the Greek state has tried to deny the existence of ethnic alterities within its boundaries, often punishing those who insis…
Surplus, storage and status in a rural Greek community
This study draws on a range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century ethnographic materials from an agrarian community in Greece to explore the links between a nexus of behaviours related to avoiding subsistence risk. Producing a ‘normal surplus’, along with storage strategies and the growing of a wide range of crops, was part of a mix of risk-avoidance behaviours. Ultimately, however, the success of these behaviours depended on access to sufficient …
Archaeology as Intellectual Service: Engaged Archaeology in San Pasquale Valley, Calabria, Italy
Laborscapes and Archaeologies of Sustainability: Early Globalization and Commercial Farming in the San Pasquale Valley, Calabria, Italy from AD 1800–2018
Archaeological research on sustainability enjoys an increasingly high profile in the discipline, with scholars employing a range of methodological and theoretical platforms. We argue that the most successful forays of applied archaeological research into sustainability encompass three major realms: the social foundations and local histories of any human community, the economic resources and practices to support that community, and the environment…
The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte
The high mountains of the Mediterranean are often considered as refuges of ancient traditions, particularly of pastoralism and brigandage. Is this image true? This paper reports the first systematic archaeological research on Aspromonte, Southern Calabria. Archaeological, cartographic and air photo evidence suggests that people used the high mountains in all periods from the Neolithic onwards. However, early usage was low-intensity and probably f…
Archaeology (16 works) · Geography (11 works) · History (10 works) · History (8 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (4 works)