American Journal of Archaeology

109.2

Greek Towers and Slaves: An Archaeology of Exploitation

Sarah P. Morris and John K. Papadopoulos

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Tower complex at Agia Triada, Amorgos.

This article reviews the archaeological and documentary evidence for stone towers built in rural and urban Greece in classical and Hellenistic times. The history of scholarship reveals how prevailing agendas have unduly influenced interpretation. A new contextual and transregional approach situates these structures more securely within the exploitation of the Greek landscape through extractive and productive technologies, and emphasizes their relations to the forms of dependent labor that enabled them. In particular, towers may have confined unfree labor under circumstances of absentee farming and mining by wealthy owners and tenants.

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Volume 109 No. 2
April 2005

Editorial

Editorial Policy on the Publication of Recently Acquired Antiquities
Naomi Norman

Articles

Unidentified Floating Objects on Minoan Seals
Evangelos Kyriakidis

Creating the Past: The Vénus de Milo and the Hellenistic Reception of Classical Greece
Rachel Kousser

Newsletter

The Protection and Preservation of Iraq\'s Archaeological Heritage, Spring 1991–2003
Friedrich T. Schipper

AIA Awards

Awards Presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America
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Museum Review

A New Exhibit on Ancient Mesopotamia at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Andrew M. T. Moore

Book Reviews

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Books Received

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