@article{aa5b999db0844906952d4cc28d67f8e0,
title = "Halieis",
abstract = "In Blackman, David. (2003). Archaeology in Greece 2002–2003.",
author = "Dengate, {James A}",
note = "In addition to archaeological research, research of local oral history has recorded valuable information on a range of topics, including pre-mechanized woodland clearance for cultivation (of obvious relevance to Neo farming) and on traditional methods of dry-stone construction with the local materials used on the Neo site. A separate but related research project by Dr Athanasia Krahtopoulou, funded by INSTAP, has located a series of Holocene alluvial fills in the Paliambela valley, demonstrating that the landscape around the Neo site was different from that visible today.' Paliambela, Arethousa. Arja Karivieri (Finnish Institute at Athens) reports: 'Excavation and conservation of the mosaics of the ECh church in Arethousa, Paliambela, continued in 2002. The first phase of the conservation of the pavements started in 2000, when the floor mosaics and opus sectile panels that were found in 1994—1995 were cleaned and documented. A preliminary conservation and consolidation took place continuously during three field seasons. The main nave of the church was decorated with four geometric mosaic panels made of coarse pieces of marble, local black schist and spolia with inscriptions, surrounded by large rectangular slabs of white marble. The northernmost two panels had central circular medallions in opus tes-sellatum. The eastern panel, pre-consolidated in 2001, has a red six-petalled rosette in the centre, and the western panel included a crater surrounded by a laurel wreath. Unfortunately, the western medallion had been stolen in 1994. The southwestern mosaic panel, with a large lozenge in the centre, was partly destroyed by bulldozer when the site was first discovered in 1994; it has a square set on edge and a circle.",
year = "2003",
doi = "10.1017/S0570608400007560",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "49",
pages = "27",
journal = "Archaeological Reports",
issn = "0570-6084",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
}