Beyond the Acropolis : A Rural Greek Past

by: van Andel, T.H. Runnels, C.

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Beyond the Acropolis
A Rural Greek Past
Tjeerd H. van Andel and Curtis N. Runnels

About this book
Beneath the cultural peaks of Ancient Greece lay the basic agricultural economy that made civilization possible. This book studies Greek country life from its earliest beginnings to the recent past, revealing a sequence of geological, geographical, cultural, and economic images spanning some 50,000 years of human settlement and land use.

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Tables, Maps, and Figures

Introduction. Bright Dots on a Shadowed Landscape

One A Greek Countryside

Two Walking in the Fields: Archaeology Without Digging

Three Hunting the Wild Ass: Earliest Man in the Southern Argolid

Four An Outpost of the Agricultural Revolution

Five Civilization Coming

Six At the Edge of a Greater World

Seven Byzantine Chapels to Beach Hotels

Eight Learning to Take Care of the Soil

Nine Growth and Decline: A History of People

Epilogue. What Next?

Glossary

Bibliographic Essay

Bibliography

Index

Beyond the Acropolis : A Rural Greek Past

by: van Andel, T.H. Runnels, C.

• ISBN-13: 9780804726214 / 978-0-8047-2621-4
• ISBN-03: 0804726213 / 0-8047-2621-3
• Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1987

Price: 30,50 EURO

1 copy in stock