Publications

 

Exhibitions

2018 Το Κάστρο της Καλλιθέας: μάτιες σε μια αρχαία πόλη. Exhibition (in Greek and English). February 1st –May 20th 2018. Much extended version of the exhibition in Pharsala with artefacts, new texts, plans, panels 3D prints etc. S. Karapanou, M. Haagsma, M. Chykerda, curators. Diachronic Museum, Larissa. Moved to Cultural Centre, Pharsala. July 23, 2018, opening.

2013 Το Κάστρο της Καλλιθέας: μάτιες σε μια αρχαία πόλη. Exhibition (in Greek) in the Cultural Centre at Pharsala, Greece. June 26th 2013 opening. The exhibit is a permanent one and is to be used as part of the educational program for schoolchildren in the municipality of Pharsala. Curators: V. Noula, M. Haagsma and C. Myles Chykerda.

2011 Visualizing an Ancient City: Canadian-Greek Archaeological Research at Kastro Kallithea. Museum of Antiquities, University of Saskatchewan. January 2011.

2010 Visualizing an Ancient City: Canadian-Greek Archaeological Research at Kastro Kallithea. University of Alberta, Rutherford Library South: September 8-29th 2010.

 

Books

Haagsma, M.J., S. Karapanou, C.M. Chykerda, L. Surtees. 2019. The Kastro at Kallithea. A Guide Book. Farsala.

Haagsma, M.J., S. Karapanou, C.M. Chykerda, L. Surtees. 2019. Το Κάστρο Καλλιθέας. Αρχαιολογικός Οδηγός. Φάρσαλα.

Haagsma, M.J. S. Karapanou, L. Surtees, et al. In prep. The ‘Kastro’ at Kallithea: Urban Space, Fortifications, Housing.

 

Articles

Kruijshaar, C., Rodgers, K., Haagsma, M., Karapanou, S., in press. Cookware in Context: "'Phocaean' vessels in Achaia Phthiotis (Thessaly)." Proceedings of the Conference on Hellenistic Ceramics.

Haagsma, M.J., Karapanou, S., Surtees, L. (2018). Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in Greece 2015. Mouseion, 15-2, 313-316

Haagsma, M., Karapanou, S., Surtees, L. (2019). Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in Greece 2016. Mouseion, 16-2, 359-362

Bishop, Katherine.G., Sandra Garvie-Lok, Margriet Haagsma, Michael MacKinnon, Sophia Karapanou. Submitted. Mobile animal management in the Mediterranean: investigating Hellenistic (323-31 BCE) husbandry practices in Thessaly, Greece using δ13C, δ18O, and 87Sr/86Sr recorded from microsampled sheep and goat tooth enamel. Journal of Archaeological Science. Reports.

Bishop, K.G., 2018. The interwoven effects of regionalism in southeast Thessaly: a multidisciplinary approach to ancient pastoralism. Past Imperfect. Submitted February 2017. Accepted.

Bishop, Katherine. 2018. Food for thought: a biochemical study of ancient Greek shepherding. Written Three-Minute Thesis (W3MT). eParliament.

Haagsma, M.J., S. Karapanou, L. Surtees. In prep. The Kastro Kallithea Archaeological Project. Results from the excavation of Building 10 2007-2013. To be submitted to Hesperia.

Haagsma, M.J., M. Chykerda and L. Surtees. 2019. Ethnic constructs from inside and out: external policy and the ethnos of Achaia Phthiotis. Hans Beck, Kostas Buraselis, and Alex McAuley (eds). Ethnos and Koinon. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien, Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 285-321.

Haagsma, M.J. and S. Karapanou, 2016. “Culti di città e culti domestici in Acaia Ftiotide, Tessaglia”. XII Giornata Archeologica Francavillese in onore della Prof.ssa Dr.ssa Emerita Marianne Kleibrink in occasione del suo 75esimo compleanno. Festschrift for M. Kleibrink.

Haagsma, M.J. and S. Karapanou, in press. Cakes and Cults: Negotiating Identity in Hellenistic Achaia Phthiotis. In: Morgan, C. and M. Stamatopoulou (eds.) Cults and Sanctuaries in Ancient Thessaly. British School at Athens, Supplementary Volume. [9134 words; 35 pages; 10 illustrations; Final Acceptance Date: June 2014]

Haagsma, M., S. Karapanou and Laura Surtees, 2015. Greek-Canadian Fieldwork at Kastro Kallithea 2006-2012, Αρχαιολογικό Έργο Θεσσαλίας και Στέρεας Ελλάδας. Πρακτικά επιστημονικής συνάντησης 4. Βόλος. 16-8 March 2012. A. Mazarakis-Ainian, ed. The University of Thessaly Press. pp. 245-256.

Chykerda, C.M., M. J. Haagsma and S. Karapanou, 2015. "Landscapes of Defense: Kastro Kallithea and Its Role in Fourth-Century BCE Achaia Phthiotis". Backdirt (Journal of the Cotsen Instititute of Archaeology, UCLA). Pp. 10-23.

Haagsma, M., 2014. Ten years of archaeological research at Kallithea: an overview. In the Bulletin of the Canadian Institute in Greece. Spring 2014, no. 33.

Chykerda, C. Myles, M.J. Haagsma, S. Karapanou. 2014. "From City to Sea: Kastro Kallithea (Thessaly) and its Role in the Defense of Southern Achaia Phthiotis."" In D. Rupp and J. Tomlinson (eds.) Meditations on the Diversity of the Built Environment in the Aegean Basin and beyond. Proceedings of the colloquium in commemoration of Dr. Frederick Winter, Canadian Institute in Greece, June 22-23 2012.. Athens, Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece no. 8. pp. 285-311.

Surtees, L., S. Karapanou and M. Haagsma. 2014. "Exploring Kastro Kallithea on the Surface: the foundation and occupation of Kastro Kallithea, Thessaly, Greece." In D. Rupp and J. Tomlinson (eds.) Meditations on the Diversity of the Built Environment in the Aegean Basin and beyond. Proceedings of the colloquium in commemoration of Dr. Frederick Winter, Canadian Institute in Greece, June 22-23 2012. Athens, Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece no. 8. pp. 431-453.

Stamatopoulou, M., 2013. ‘Kastro Kallithea’ in: Thessaly from Prehistoric to Roman. Archaeological Reports 59, 46-48.

Stamatopoulou, M., 2012. ‘Kastro Kallithea’ in: Thessaly from Prehistoric to Roman. Archaeological Reports 58, 76.

Haagsma, M.J., S. Karapanou, T. Harvey, L. Surtees, 2011. “An Ancient City and its Agora. Results of the Archaeological Project at the Kastro of Kallithea, Greece.” In Giannikouri, E. (ed), The Agora in the Mediterranean: from Homeric to Roman times, organised by the Archaeological Institute for Aegean Studies, the Hellenic Ministry of Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism. 197-209.

Haagsma, M.J., S. Karapanou, S. Gouglas, 2007. "Kallithea 2005 and 2006 in: A. Touchais (ed.) Chronique des Fouilles, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique vol. 131.

Haagsma, M.J., S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. 2007. "Kastro Kallithea 2006" Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 62, 724-730

Haagsma, M.J., “Hellenistic Housing in Achaia Phthiotis: a regional approach to domestic economy and social organisation." In C. Ladstaetter et al. (eds.). Proceedings of the conference: Urban Living in the Eastern Mediterranean: 4th century BC AD. Vienna, October 24-27, 2007. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Zentrum Archaeologie und Altertumswissenschaften. Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Antike. 33-49.

Lee, R., C. Martin, M. Haagsma, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. 2010. ‘Rebuilding the past: Modelling Architecture of Kastro Kallithea to understand Macedonian Influences in Hellenistic Thessaly. In: Bikoulis, P., D. Lacroix, M. Peuramaki-Brown (eds), Proceedings of the 39th Chacmool Conference, Postcolonial Perspectives in Archaeology. November 2006. University of Calgary.

Tziafalias, A., M. Haagsma, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. 2009. Preliminary results of the Urban Survey at Kastro Kallithea. Μαζαράκης-Αινιάν, Α.,(ed.) Αρχαιολογικό Έργο Θεσσαλίας και Στέρεας Ελλάδας. Πρακτικά επιστημονικής συνάντησης 2. Βόλος 16.3-19.3 2006. Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού pp. 217-229.

Tziafalias, A., M. Haagsma, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. "The Kastro of Kallithea in its historical context." In Λίλα Π. Γλέγλέ et al. (eds.) 1 Διέθνες Συνέδριο Ιστορίας & Πολιτισμού της Θεσσαλίας. Larissa. 9-11 Nov. 2006. pp. 224-232.

Haagsma, M., S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. ‘Kastro Kallithea’ in: C. Morgan, 2007. ‘Archaeology in Greece’. Archaeological Reports. Vol. 54, pp. 60-61.

Tziafalias, A., M. Haagsma, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. 2006. "Scratching the Surface. A Preliminary Report of the first Two Seasons of Fieldwork at Kastro Kallithea, Thessaly. Part 1." Mouseion 6.2, pp. 91-135.

Tziafalias, A., S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas. 2006. "Kastro Kallithea 2005" in Aρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 61, pp. 636-638.

Tziafalias, A., M. Haagsma, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas, 2006. "Kastro Kallithea" in: J. Whitley, 2006. "Archaeology in Greece." Archaeological Reports. Vol. 52. pp. 46-47.

Tziafalias, A., M. Haagsma, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas, 2005. "Kastro Kallithea" in: J. Whitley, 2005. "Archaeology in Greece." Archaeological Reports. Vol. 51. pp. 62-63.

Tziafalias, A., M. Haagsma, S. Karapanou and S. Gouglas, 2005. "Kallithea, Thessaly" in: S. Kennell. On Site. Canadian Archaeologists in Greece. Athens, Motibo. pp. 44-45.

 

KKAP Website

Haagsma, M., The Kastro Kallithea Archaeological Project Website

 

Dissertations

Aiken, M., 2019. Pig Husbandry at Kastro Kallithea: An Isotopic Study of Pig Husbandry in Hellenistic Thessaly. MA Thesis (Anthropology). University of Alberta, Department of Anthropology.

Bishop, K., 2021. Investigating Transhumance and Pastoralism in Modern and Ancient Thessaly, Greece Using Stable Isotope Analysis of Carbon, Oxygen, and Strontium Isotopes from Sheep and Goat Teeth. PhD Thesis (Anthropology). University of Alberta, Department of Anthropology.

Gering, S., 2018. The Evolution of Drinking Habits: A Comparison of the Banquets from Athens, Macedonian, and Thessaly (Kastro Kallithea), MA Thesis (Classical Archaeology). University of Alberta, Department of History and Classics.

Rodgers, K., 2016. Phocaean Pottery in Achaia Phthiotis: A Case Study on Cooking in Kastro Kallithea’s Building 10. MA Thesis (Classical Archaeology). University of Alberta, Department of History and Classics.

Surtees, L., 2012. The Archaeological Survey at Kastro Kallithea. PhD Thesis. Bryn Mawr.

Chykerda, M., 2011. Kallithea to Halos: the defense network of the north Othrys mountains. MA Thesis (Humanities Computing) University of Alberta

Dosser, A., 2012. The Symposion in Hellenistic Domestic Contexts: a comparison between Delos, Halos and Kallithea. MA in Classical Archaeology. University of Alberta.

The Region

Considered a perioikos of Thessaly in Classical Antiquity, our region was the mythical homeland of Achilles, Jason's golden-fleeced ram, and Hellen--the ancestor of all Greeks. The inhabitants of this region held and still hold strongly to their Homeric past throughout its fraught history.

A Funerary Landscape

It has become clear that the landscape immediately surrounding the Kastro is occupied with architecture including fountain houses, extramural architecture, tholos tombs, and a necropolis with tile graves. Our team was able to map several features in this area, but the ones that stood out were the numerous tholos tombs belonging to the Early Iron Age.

Enipeus

The Landscape

Our surveys take place in the fields and rolling hills around the village of Kallithea, in the northern part of ancient Achaia Phthiotis, to the south of the Thessalian plains, and north of the Othrys mountains.

Survey Area and Methodology

Our research area measures ca. 3000 hectares, is bounded by the river Enipeas in the south and east, and extends towards the Narthaki range in the north. It includes the area around the settlements Kallithea and Platanos and the valley of the Kotsilorrema stream around the village Aghios Antonios.

“And it is reasonable to suppose that all the people, the subjects of Achilles and Patroclus, who had accompanied Peleus in his flight from Aigina, were called Myrmidons. But all the Phthians were called Achaians.”
Achaia Phthiotis in Strabo's Geography 9.5.9