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As a Mycenaean town, the
site offers potential new insights into the workings of Mycenaean society. Pavlopetri has added importance as it was a maritime settlement from which the inhabitants coordinated local
and long distance trade.These remarkable findings have been made public by the Greek government after the start of
a 5 year collaborative project involving the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and The University of Nottingham. During the fieldwork session
in summer 2010, the team
carried out a detailed digital underwater survey and study
of the structural remains, which until this year were thought to belong to the Mycenaean period — around 1,600 to 1,000 BC. The survey surpassed all their expectations. Possibly one of the most important discoveries has been the identification of what could be a megaron — a large rectangular great hall — from the Early Bronze Age period.Their investigations revealed another 9,000 m2 of new buildings as well as ceramics that suggest the site was occupied throughout the Bronze Age — from at least 2,800 BC to 1,100 BC.
A log frame matrix or similar scheme can be very helpful in strategically organizing objectives, ac- tivities and outcomes with a view to the short, medium- and long-term.
Immediate Objectives or Project Goals
Inter- vention logic
Objectively veri- fiable indicators of achievement/ benchmark
Sources and means of verifica- tion
Assump- tions and risks
Archaeo- logical Objective(s)
Expected results
Activities
Project objectives must be in line with the principles stated under Rules 1 to 8. Most importantly, action on underwater cultural heritage is justifiable only if undertaken to protect it, to obtain detailed and reliable scientific information or to share its en- joyment with the public.
Working methods and
techniques
In order to correctly intervene, archaeologists must well-define project objectives and then use appropriate methods and working techniques. Re- search is integral to any intervention though there is no single recipe, but it is up to the archaeologist to identify and use the best methodology available. The scientific method, as implied by its etymology, is a means of arriving at reliable knowledge. Irrespective of the concrete methodology chosen, it will have to meet some minimum conditions if it is to respond effectively to the challenges that working under water presents.
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