The Early Neolithic in Greece : The First Farming Communities in Europe

by: Perles, C.

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The early Neolithic in Greece : the first farming communities in Europe

Author:Catherine Perlès

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

Series:
Cambridge world archaeology

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

The Early Neolithic in Greece : The First Farming Communities in Europe

by: Perles, C.

• ISBN-13: 9780521801812 / 978-0-521-80181-2
• ISBN-03: 0521801818 / 0-521-80181-8
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001

Price: 79,00 EURO

1 copy in stock