2nd SHIC on Environment & Culture
Successful digital conference was held in collaboration with Greece and China.
The 2nd SHIC on Environment & Culture was planned to take place in Delphi on 17-19 September 2021.
PROGRAM: https://shap-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/scprogram169.pdf
ABSTRACT: http://zitafiles.info/Platania/SINO/abstractbook1609.pdf
Interesting presentation about historical and geological aspects.
The inner city of Athens in Greece:
a Palimpsest of Urban Geo-Archaeology.
1George E Kontokostas, 2Aggeliki
G Kontokosta
1gakon67@hotmail.com , National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
2 aggeliki.kontokosta@gmail.com, School
of Architecture.National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Apart
from being an attraction in Athens city centre Monastiraki is an area rich in
historical elements of various eras. More specifically one can see roman,
byzantine, neoclassical and modern buildings which extend to and are limited by
different levels in different altitude according to the historical era to which
they belong. The difference in altitude
reveals the Palimpsest of the buildings throughout centuries, as well as the
fact that the level of the city is changing upwards.
Levels
vary as follows: the Roman Market and Adrianus’s Library are at the lowest
level, Byzantine churches as Pantanassa (11th century AD) are at the
intermediate level and modern buildings of the twentieth century are at the
highest level.
The
landscape Architectural design of the outdoor environment and spaces, both
within and beyond the built environment, help us to design walk trails which
combine geological and historical points of interest and to notice the
conservation and sustainability of development in an open socio-environmental
system.
Most
people think that the urban area is poor for geological study and contains few
useful geological data “With all the constructions, the initial data that could
provide the references for the tectonic regime have been lost” (Chuang Xu et
al., 2015). This thought derives from the fact that “In urban areas the initial
surface has been shaped due to the rapid growth, in a way that covers the needs
of the inhabitants of a region. The land surfaces have been built and sharpened
artificially, roads have been constructed, and the hydrographic networks have
been changed and shaped, while natural surface have been fragmented and
degraded, hence the constructed landscape is “poor” for geological study
(Zervopoulou and Pavlides, 2016). In our research we studied the city in the
light of geology, the designed geological walk trail is a practical
endorsement, where the visitors will use fieldwork skills to identify a range
of rocks and geological materials in the built environment and can also be
informed about geological and archeological features of the area. For that
purpose we selected stops which were very closed to each other, they were in an
area with rich historical geological features (river: Eridanus, hills: Lycabettus,
the Acropolis, Philopappus) and they had a wide range of rocks in the built
environment.
In this
specific study:
1
Monastiraki-2 Kapnikarea-3 Pantanassa-4 Library of Hadrian -5 Roman Market,
is the
walk trail that was selected. These geo-archeological selected sites reveals
how geological and archaeological
elements coexist or are integrated
between them in the same area.
Keywords: geo-archaeology, architectural landscape,
archaeological and rock art sites, geological walk trail, urban geology,
geology teaching, secondary school.
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A., Antonarakou, A., Loizos, S., Zambetakis –Lekkas, 2016.
Development
and precodification of a lithosphere questionnaire as a tool in
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Greece,
50(1), 201-208 https://doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11720
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Ch., 2017, Byzantine Athens. 10th-12th centuries, Routledge – Benaki
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X., Hai-hong, W., Zhi-cai, L., Jin-sheng, N. and Hua-liang, L., 2015.
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Kontokostas
G, Antonarakou A, Fountopoulou M, Drinia H, Lozios S
2019,URBAN
GEOLOGY: EDUCATIONAL PROPOSAL FOR GEOSIENCE.
A CASE
STUDY FROM THE INNER CITY OF ATHENS, GREECE, 15th
International
Congress of geological Society of Greece, Athens 22-24
May
2019.
