The early Neolithic in Greece : the first farming communities in Europe / Catherine Perles ; illustrations by Gerard Monthel.
Drawing evidence from a wide range of archaeological sources, including often neglected 'small finds', and introducing daring new perspectives on funerary rituals and the distribution of figurines, she constructs a complex and subtle picture of early Neolithic societies, overturning the tr...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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Table of 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.