ABSTRACT
Prior to the war, with notable exceptions, Macedonia barely appeared in the archaeological maps. Macedonia, by contrast, did not participate in the project of aesthetic and cultural gentrification actively carried out in the South. Built up through the nineteenth century, the cultural distance of Macedonia was falling into a recognisable pattern, which has been described as the alterity, or otherness, of Macedonia. Some of the prehistoric mounds on which the military trenches were dug were identified by Wace's previous reconnaissance in Macedonia. Once again, Macedonia had become the boundary zone, the screen, between two opposed bounded entities, as it was always thought to have been throughout its long prehistory, a place of ethnic and cultural distance. Migrations and invasions are perfect simulations of war, which that generation of archaeologists was directly experiencing. For some decades, communication with the other side of the border was not possible for Greek archaeologists and prehistoric research progressed in relative isolation.
