| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 356 pages) : illustrations |
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Cambridge world archaeology |
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Cambridge world archaeology.
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| Contents |
The land and its resources: the geographic context -- The Mesolithic background -- The introduction of farming: local processes, diffusion or colonization? -- Foreign colonists: where from? -- The earliest Neolithic deposits: 'aceramic', 'pre-pottery' or 'ceramic'? -- The spread of the Early Neolithic in Greece: chronological and geographical aspects -- A case study in Early Neolithic settlement patterns: eastern Thessaly -- Early Neolithic subsistence economy: the domestic and the wild -- The early Neolithic village -- Craft specialization: the contrasting cases of chipped-stone tools, pottery and ornaments -- A variety of daily crafts -- Ritual interaction? The miniature world of 'dolls or deities' -- Interacting with the dead: from the disposal of the body to funerary rituals -- Interactions among the living |
| Summary |
"Farmers made a sudden and dramatic appearance in Greece around 7000 BC, bringing with them domesticated plants and animals, new crafts and techniques, and establishing settled villages. They were Europe's first farmers, but Catherine Perles argues that the stimulus for the spread of agriculture to Europe was a maritime colonisation movement involving small groups of people of various origins. With title competition from local hunter-gatherers, they recreated, to an unusual degree, a completely man-made environment, neglecting local resources or raw materials and favouring interaction with other communities |
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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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-343) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Neolithic period -- Greece.
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Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Greece
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
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Agriculture, Prehistoric
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Antiquities
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Neolithic period
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Neolithikum
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Neolithicum.
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Archeologische vondsten.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057037
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| Subject |
Greece
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Griechenland Altertum
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511016255 |
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9780511016257 |
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9780511612855 |
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0511612850 |
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9780511047671 |
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0511047673 |
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1107122848 |
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9781107122840 |
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1280433108 |
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9781280433108 |
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0511174527 |
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9780511174520 |
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0511328362 |
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9780511328367 |
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