| Description |
xiv, 356 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge world archaeology
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Neolithic period -- Greece.
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Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Greece.
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Greece -- Antiquities.
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| ISBN |
0521000270 (pbk.) |
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0521801818 |
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