







The Olynthos Project 2014-2019: Season 2018
Excavation: Research excavation
2018 marked the fifth season of this collaborative project seeking to recover a uniquely detailed picture of Greek households as social and economic units, within their broader urban and regional settings. Goals for the 2018 season on the North Hill were to continue investigation of house B ix 6, working towards completely revealing its final occupation phase and investigating the range and distribution of activities taking place there; re-opening of Test Trench 3 (TT03) in order to clarify the character of activities along the northeast periphery of the hill; and continued investigation of the organisation of settlement and the distribution of activities across the hill through continued surface collection on the eastern and southern parts of the hill not previously investigated. Surface collections were carried out on the North hill; the material found indicated dense settlement across the hill in Antiquity and the majority of the pottery was dated to the Classical period. On the South Hill, work continued in trench TT23. Under the paved surface of the road identified in 2017 a preparation deposit was located, and beneath that an earlier paved street composed of smaller stones. A clay-like deposit comprising collapsed architectural material, mudbricks, pottery, shells and fragments of bone extended below these contexts, and when this deposit was removed a semicircular ash-like deposit came to light, an installation or hearth, dating to the Archaic period, before the Persian destruction.
Active in 2018.