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Hamish Forbes

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts

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Research Summary

Late Post-Medieval Rural Landscapes in Southern Calabria (Rural sites and landscape change in the later C19th and C20th)

Recent Publications

  • FORBES, H.A., 2007. Meaning and identity in a Greek landscape: an archaeological ethnography New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • FORBES, H.A., 2007. Early modern Greece: liquid landscapes and fluid populations. In: DAVIS, J.L. and DAVIES, S., eds., Between Venice and Istanbul: colonial landscapes in Early Modern Greece Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 111-135
  • FOXHALL, L., JONES, M. and FORBES, H.A., 2007. The human ecology of ancient Greece and Italy. In: ROBIN OSBORNE AND SUSAN ALCOCK, ed., Classical Archaeology Oxford: Blackwell. 89-117
  • FORBES, H.A., 2002. Prudent producers and concerned consumers: ethnographic and historical observations on staple storage and urban consumer behaviour. In: MIRACLE, P. and MILNER, N., eds., Consuming passions and patterns of consumption Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. 97-112

Past Research

Meaning and Identity in a Greek Landscape

Field research projects: Ethnographic fieldwork, Methana, Greece. July 1972-August 1974. Ethnographic/ethnohistorical fieldwork, Southern Argolid, Greece. Summers 1980, 1982, 1983. Archaeological Survey of Methana. Summers 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, Methana Landscape Project, June-July 1997. Bova Marina, Calabria, Italy: late post-medieval landscapes: 2005, 2006, 2007

  • FORBES, H.A., 2007. Meaning and identity in a Greek landscape: an archaeological ethnography New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • FORBES, H.A., 2007. Early modern Greece: liquid landscapes and fluid populations. In: DAVIS, J.L. and DAVIES, S., eds., Between Venice and Istanbul: colonial landscapes in Early Modern Greece Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 111-135
  • FOXHALL, L., JONES, M. and FORBES, H.A., 2007. The human ecology of ancient Greece and Italy. In: ROBIN OSBORNE AND SUSAN ALCOCK, ed., Classical Archaeology Oxford: Blackwell. 89-117
  • FORBES, H.A., 2002. Prudent producers and concerned consumers: ethnographic and historical observations on staple storage and urban consumer behaviour. In: MIRACLE, P. and MILNER, N., eds., Consuming passions and patterns of consumption Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. 97-112
  • FORBES, H.A. and FOXHALL, L., 2002. <i>Anonyma therina</i>: summer crops in Theophrastus and in modern Greece. In: ASCANI, K., GABRIELSEN, V., KVIST, K. and RASMUSSEN, A.H., eds., Ancient history matters: studies presented to Jens Erik Skydsgaard on his seventieth birthday Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider. 87-100
  • FORBES, H.A., 2002. 'Shepherds' ears burning again ...' Review of A.T. Grove and Oliver Rackham The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History Times Higher Education Supplement. 6 Sept, 26
  • FORBES, H.A., 2001. Security and Settlement in the Mediaeval and Post-Mediaeval Peloponnese, Greece: `Hard' History versus Oral History Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. VOL 13(PART 2), 204-224
  • FORBES, H.A., 2000. Landscape exploitation via pastoralism: examining the 'landscape degradation' versus sustainable economy debate in the post-medieval Southern Argolid. In: HALSTEAD, P. and FREDERICK, C., eds., Landscape and Land Use in Post-glacial Greece Sheffield : University of Sheffield. 95-109
  • FORBES, H.A. and KOSTER, H., 2000. The 'commons' and the market ecological effects of communal land tenure and market integration on local resources in the Mediterranean. In: SUTTON, S.B., ed., Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy and Land Use in the Southern Argolid Since 1700 Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press. 262-274
  • FORBES, H.A., 2000. The agrarian economy of the Ermionidha around 1700: an ethnohistorical reconstruction. In: SUTTON, S.B., ed., Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy and Land Use in the Southern Argolid since 1700 Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press. 41-70
  • FORBES, H.A., 2000. Dowry and inheritance: their relationship to land fragmentation and risk reduction on Methana. In: SUTTON, S.B., ed., Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy and Land Use in the Southern Argolid Since 1700 Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press. 200-227
  • FORBES, H.A., 1998. European Agriculture Viewed Bottom-side Upwards: Fodder- and Forage-provision in a Traditional Greek Community Environmental Archaeology. VOL 1, 19-34
  • FORBES, H.A. and MEE, C.B., eds., 1997. A Rough and Rocky Place: the Landscape, and Settlement History of the Methana Peninsula, Greece Liverpool : Liverpool University Press.
  • FORBES, H.A., 1997. A "waste" of resources: aspects of landscape exploitation in lowland Greek agriculture. In: KARDULIAS, P.N. and SHUTES, M.T., eds., Aegean Strategies, Studies of culture and Environment on the European Fringe Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield. 187-213
  • FORBES, H.A., 1996. The uses of the uncultivated landscape in modern Greece: a pointer to the value of the wilderness in antiquity?. In: SHIPLEY, G. and SALMON, J., eds., Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity. Environment and Culture London : Routledge. 68-97
  • FORBES, H.A., MEE, C.B. and FOXHALL, L., 1996. Six hundred years of settlement history of the Methana peninsula: an interdisciplinary approach Dialogos; Hellenic Studies Review. VOL 3, 72-94
  • FORBES, H.A., 1996. Ermionis 1690-1990: o rolos tis elias se 300 Khronia ikonomikis exelixis. In: Elia kai Ladhi Athens : Politistiko Tekhnologhiko Idhryma ETVA. 340-347
  • FORBES, H.A., 1996. Frankel, Avitsur & Ayalon, History and technology of olive oil in the Holy Land Antiquity. VOL 70(NUMBER 268), 475
  • FORBES, H.A., 1995. The identification of pastoralist sites within the context of estate-based agriculture in ancient Greece: beyond the `transhumance versus agropastoralism' debate British School at Athens. Annual. VOL 90, 325-338
  • FORBES, H.A. and FOXHALL, L., 1995. Ethnoarchaeology and storage in the ancient Mediterranean: beyond risk and survival. In: Food in Antiquity University of Exeter Press, Exeter, England. 69-86
  • FORBES, H.A., 1994. Pastoralism and Settlement Structures in Ancient Greece. In: Structures Rurales et Soci?t?s Antiques, Annales Lit?raires de L'Universit? de Besan?on. Centre de Recherches d'Histoire Ancienne

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