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Author: Apostolos Sarris Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1789201462 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 512
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The last three decades have witnessed a period of growing archaeological activity in Greece that have enhanced our awareness of the diversity and variability of ancient communities. New sites offer rich datasets from many aspects of material culture that challenge traditional perceptions and suggest complex interpretations of the past. This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula.
Author: Apostolos Sarris Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1789201462 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 512
Book Description
The last three decades have witnessed a period of growing archaeological activity in Greece that have enhanced our awareness of the diversity and variability of ancient communities. New sites offer rich datasets from many aspects of material culture that challenge traditional perceptions and suggest complex interpretations of the past. This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula.
Author: G. Papathanasopoulos Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art, Cycladic Languages : en Pages : 360
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Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of archaeological finds that indicate the presence of Neolithic culture in present-day Greece. Contains a variety of illustrated essays about the Neolithic world, habitation, agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting, fishing, tools, pottery, stone vessels, weaving, basketry, metallurgy, figurines and models, seals, jewellery, exchanges and relations, and burial customs, as well as Neolithic cultures in neighboring regions. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 339 pieces representing many of the items addressed in the essays. This catalog published for the exhibition won the prize of the Academy of Athens in 1997.
Author: Paul Halstead Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9781850758242 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 172
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Understanding of early farming societies in Greece has been revolutionized by major field projects, by the growing application of specialist 'scientific' studies, and by new approaches to interpretation. This volume reviews the most significant recent field research, ranging from regional survey, through large-scale excavation of an extensive open settlement, to the investigation of caves. Contributors critically evaluate or revise current ideas on the nature of these early societies at a range of scales from the individual to the region.
Author: Catherine Perlès Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521801812 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 298
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Farmers made a sudden and dramatic appearance in Greece around 7000 BC, bringing with them new ceramics and crafts, and establishing settled villages. They were Europe's first farmers, and their settlements provide the link between the first agricultural communities in the Near East and the subsequent spread of the new technologies to the Balkans and on to Western Europe. In this 2001 book, Catherine Perlès argues that the stimulus for the spread of agriculture to Europe was a colonisation movement involving small groups of maritime peoples. Drawing evidence from a wide range of archaeological sources, including often neglected 'small finds', and introducing daring new perspectives on funerary rituals and the distribution of figurines, she constructs a complex and subtle picture of early Neolithic societies, overturning the traditional view that these societies were simple and self-sufficient.
Author: Paul Halstead Publisher: Oxbow Books ISBN: 1785705091 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 217
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Food and drink, along with the material culture involved in their consumption, can signify a variety of social distinctions, identities and values. Thus, in Early Minoan Knossos, tableware was used to emphasize the difference between the host and the guests, and at Mycenaean Pylos the status of banqueters was declared as much by the places assigned to them as by the quality of the vessles form which they ate and drank. The ten contributions to this volume highlight the extraordinary opportunity for multi-disciplinary research in this area.
Author: Collectif Publisher: MOM Éditions ISBN: 2356681884 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 518
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This volume presents the results of a multidisciplinary research program (“Balkans 4000”) financed by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and coordinated by the editor between 2007 and 2011, when she was a member of the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée (Laboratory of Archaeology and Archaeometry). 192 new radiocarbon dates have been produced in the laboratories of Lyon, Saclay and Demokritos, from 34 archaeological sites, spanning the years from the end of the 6th to the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. They shed light on the evolution of human settlement during the late stages of the Neolithic period in Greece and Bulgaria, and more specifically on the transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age during the “obscure” 4th millennium BC. Thirty-one scholars, archaeologists as well as radiocarbon scientists, are signing the contributions.
Author: Lisa Nevett Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472122533 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 339
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In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek world? Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece offers a series of case studies exploring how a theoretical approach to the archaeology of this area provides insight into aspects of ancient society. An introductory section exploring the emergence and growth of theoretical approaches is followed by examinations of the potential insights these approaches provide. The authors probe some of the meanings attached to ancient objects, townscapes, and cemeteries, for those who created, and used, or inhabited them. The range of contexts stretches from the early Greek communities during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, through Athens between the eighth and fifth centuries BCE, and on into present day Turkey and the Levant during the third and second centuries BCE. The authors examine a range of practices, from the creation of individual items such as ceramic vessels and figurines, through to the construction of civic buildings, monuments, and cemeteries. At the same time they interrogate a range of spheres, from craft production, through civic and religious practices, to funerary ritual.
Author: Anastasia Papathanasiou Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited ISBN: 9781785706486 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 488
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First definitive publication on the major Neolithic settlement, cemetery and ceremonial site of Alepotrypa Cave, Greece, which is virtually unique in its preservation of undisturbed archaeological deposits including biological material, a wealth of artefacts and burials, following collapse of the cave roof.
Author: Harald Haarmann Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786478276 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 247
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Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world, that democracy, agriculture, theater and the arts were the attainments of Classical Greek civilization, these were actually a Bronze Age fusion of earlier European concepts and Hellenic ingenuity. This work considers both the multicultural wellspring from which these ideas flowed and their ready assimilation by the Greeks, who embraced these hallmarks of civilization, and refined them to the level of sophistication that defines classical antiquity.
Author: Apostolos Sarris
Author: Apostolos Sarris
Author: G. Papathanasopoulos
Author: Paul Halstead
Author: Catherine Perlès
Author: Paul Halstead
Author: Thomas R. Martin
Author: Collectif
Author: Lisa Nevett
Author: Anastasia Papathanasiou
Author: Harald Haarmann