Emergence of Civilisation Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC

Name: Emergence of Civilisation Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC
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ISBN: 9780977409464

ISBN-10: 0977409465

ISBN-13: 9780977409464

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Colin Renfrew, John Cherry

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Unavailable for too long, this new edition reprints the original text of Renfrew's groundbreaking study, supplemented with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by John Cherry, in order to make this landmark publication available once again to the scholarly community. Contents: Foreword by John Cherry; Introduction to the 2009 Edition; Civilisation; The Explanation of Culture Change; The Multiplier Effect; the Minoan-Mycenean Civilisation and its Origins. Part I - Culture Sequence: The Neolithic Background; Crete in the Third Millennium BC; Mainland Greece in the Third Millennium BC; The Eastern Aegean in the Third Millennium BC; The Early Cycladic Culture Sequence; The…

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List price: $75.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxbow Books, Limited
Publication date: 2/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 650
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.146
Language: English

John Cherry is deputy keeper in the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum.



List of Illustrations


Notes to the Illustrations


Site map


Foreword



Preface and Introduction (2010)


Preface (1972)


Acknowledgements (1972)


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 Millenium 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



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


Bibliography


Full Captions to the Plates


Index


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