Measurements of 406 medieval and post-medieval houses in the southern Mani Peninsula, Greece

Data from field recording of domestic house architecture in the southern region of the Mani Peninsula, Greece. Measurements were collected for 406 houses dating to the Middle Byzantine to Ottoman periods (8th to 17th centuries AD), allowing for a better understanding of typical characteristics of the so-called "palaiomaniatika" (or "Old Maniat") architecture that dates to these periods. Additionally, total house counts were obtained for 32 settlements that were able to be mapped in their entirety, providing insight into the typical size of these settlements. A paper interpreting these data, 'The Stone-Built Palaiomaniatika of the Mani Peninsula, Greece,' will be published in the volume Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean, edited by Rebecca M. Seifried and Deborah Brown Stewart, Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks (forthcoming, 2021). The paper will be linked here after publication.

Dr. Seifried collected the data as part of a PhD dissertation completed in 2016 through the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, entitled 'Community Organization and Imperial Expansion in a Rural Landscape: The Mani Peninsula, Greece (AD 1000-1821)' (https://hdl.handle.net/10027/21274). Fieldwork was conducted in 2014 and 2016 under the auspices of the 5th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities in Sparta and in collaboration with the Diros Project, an archaeological survey and excavation co-directed by Dr. Giorgos Papathanassopoulos and Dr. Anastasia Papathanasiou through the Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology & Speleology of Southern Greece. 

This research was funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS-1346694), the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 750843), the DigitalGlobe Foundation, the National Cadastre and Mapping Agency, SA (Ktimatologio), ArchaeoLandscapes Europe, the University of Illinois at Chicago.