The Emergence of Civilisation : The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium B.C.

by: Renfrew, C.

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The emergence of civilisation: the Cyclades and the Aegean in the third millennium B.C

Author:Colin Renfrew

Contents:
Introduction. Civilisation ; The explanation of culture change ; The multiplier effect ; The Minoan-Mycenean civilisation and its origins
Culture sequence. The neolithic background ; Crete in the third millennium BC ; Mainland Greece in the third millennium BC ; The third millennium BC in the Eastern Aegean ; The early Cycladic culture sequence ; The Grotta-Pelos culture ; The Keros-Syros culture ; The Phylakopi I culture ; Aegean interrelations and chronology in the third millennium BC
Culture process. Patterns of settlement and population in the prehistoric Aegean ; Natural environment and the subsistence subsystem ; The development of Aegean metallurgy ; Craft specialisation and the transformation of the physical environment ; Social systems ; Symbolic and projective systems ; Trade, communication and innovation ; The multiplier effect in action
Appendix. Gazetteer of neolithic and early Bronze Age sites in the Cycladic Islands ; Local groups with the Grotta-Pelos and Keros-Syros cultures of the Cyclades ; Data for the matrix analysis of the early Cycladic cemeteries

liv, 634 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

The Emergence of Civilisation : The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium B.C.

by: Renfrew, C.

• ISBN-13: 9780977409464 / 978-0-9774094-6-4
• ISBN-03: 0977409465 / 0-9774094-6-5
• Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2011

Price: 68,00 EURO

1 copy in stock