Abstract

The Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP) is a diachronic archaeological survey of numerous small, uninhabited islands in the Cycladic archipelago. There is a rich history of archaeological survey and comparative island archaeology in the Aegean. SCIP narrows the size of an individual island survey, and at the same time expands the conceptual and comparative scope by surveying multiple islands with the same set of methods and in the context of the same project. All target islands are currently uninhabited, and many probably never sustained any habitation. We know from other cases, however, that such places were used for a variety of purposes in the past, including as goat islands, cemeteries, stopovers, and pirate hideaways. In its initial field season in 2019, SCIP carried out comprehensive surveys of 10 islets in the vicinity of Paros. This comparative program of research provides new insights concerning various types of human activities—habitation and non-habitation, diachronic and incidental—that took place in marginal island environments.

摘要

小基克拉迪群岛项目 (SCIP) 是对基克拉迪群岛中众多无人居住的小岛的历时考古调查。爱琴海有丰富的考古调查和比较岛屿考古的历史。SCIP缩小了单个岛屿调查的规模，同时通过在同一项目的背景下使用相同的方法对多个岛屿进行调查，扩大了概念和比较范围。所有目标岛屿目前都无人居住，而且许多可能从未有人居住过。然而，我们从其他案例中了解到，这些地方过去曾被用于各种目的，包括山羊岛、墓地、中途停留地和海盗藏身处。在 2019 年的初始野外季节，SCIP 对帕罗斯附近的 10 个小岛进行了综合调查。